Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearst Documents. The special committee investigating the documents with which Publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to show a bribery plot between Mexico and U. S. Senators (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.), approached the conclusion that Publisher Hearst was a knave or a dolt or both. Handwriting experts last week pronounced the documents, for which Publisher Hearst paid $20,000, to be inept forgeries. The evidence pointed toward the Hearst agent, Miguel Avila, as one of the forgers, though this was not proved. Publisher Hearst protested his own innocence, agreed he had been bamboozled but again insisted a bribery plot...
...tragedy is complete enough but it becomes almost fantastic in its very direct simplicity, for the play is nothing outside of its plot. Yet the play is effective in the way it is intended, for which result the acting is in large measure responsible. Philip Merivale in the part of Nick Faring, Mary Morris as his wife and Beth Merrill as his sister-in-law are the central figures...
...combine two types of music; those of George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg, each extremely successful in itself. "They make great variety and a good combination," he continued. "Another innovation is that the story is based on reality. I have found out that the American public appreciates a sensible plot more than the general blurb we used to present years ago. That whole West Point affair was true, you know. We therefore thought the scenery should be real too. The music is also more coherent with the plot...
There is a faint mad thread of plot whereby famed Actress Cavendish nearly marries a millionaire and retires. Her lovely daughter has married; and in the third act retires from married life to the fascination of the theatre. The great character is aged Fanny Cavendish, pillar of the family tradition. She dies at the end. Thus the authors mix sorrow with breathless farce, the better to dimn the bewildering existence of this astounding family. Some fear the play is too acutely written from the inside of the theatre to appeal to audiences. The first audiences laughed resoundingly; and cried...
...White Eagle is a musical play with dignified and ponderous gait like an upholstered elephant. The plot (from Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man) details the adventures of the Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings...