Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satyriasis and astrology, while Janet, her daughter, is a nympholept. Hugh, Pride's secretary and Miriam's lover, and Sally, the West African negress, addicted to voo-doo, complete this attractive menage. But we should mention Tod, the giant police-dog, whose essentially surly nature contributes materially to the plot. The advent of Oscar, the musician,--who tells the story,--with a set of brand-new and, comparatively, healthy passions, precipitates matters. Things move from bad to worse, and the climax is reached with a Saturnalia "a deux," two suicides, and the mutual assassination of Pride...
...plot of "The Constant Wife" is easy of comprehension. Miss Barrymore has the part of Constance Middleton, wife of a Harley Street Surgeon, John Middleton. John is having an affair with Marie Louise, a great friend of Constance's. Constance knows of the liaison but has decided to ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject...
Statements. Albert Bacon Fall, ill with lung congestion, again called attention to "my integrity and the complete rectitude of my every action in connection with the Teapot Dome lease." He disavowed any connection with any "jury-hanging" plot. Nevertheless, it was discovered that one of his counsel, Lawyer Mark Thompson, had telephoned a friend of Mr. Fall's at the U. S. Department of Justice to "look up the record" of a colleague who was being sleuthed by the Burns...
...only unexpected point of the plot has been left out of the summary above, so you will have to go see the show for yourself to find it out. And if you do go, listen rather than look, for there is far more to hear than there...
...plot is simple and pleasant enough, dealing, as so many seem to do nowadays, with the bootlegging industry. Jimmie Winters arrives at his Long Island home with his latest bride, having taken her as his wife on the chance that a divorce had already been granted to free him from a former matrimonial bond. Needless to say, the divorce had not been granted, as he learns by telegram soon after his arrival at his summer home. His latest wife, now not a wife in the eyes of the law, tears off to get her father and the shotgun...