Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot deals with an exiled king and the machinations of the rich American widow who is in love with him to restore him to the throne. As a subplot there is a prince, the destined husband of the king's daughter, who meets the princess incognito so as to be loved for himself alone. Other playwrights have employed dramatic or humorous incidents from nuclei as unpromising as this. But the lines of the present attraction at the Apollo are so amateurish and crudely done that there is no such happy issue. When comedy is the object, the authors take such...
...presidential candidate: Edouard Herriot. Oct. 28-Nov. 9-Institute of Pacific Relations meets at Kyoto. Oct. 29-British Parliament reconvenes at London. Oct. 30-General election in Ontario, Canada. Nov. 5-In England, Guy Fawkes' Day national celebration with fireworks and bonfires in commemoration of Fawkes' "gunpowder plot" (1604). Nov. 9-Prince of Wales presides at dinner for all wearers of England's Victoria Cross (highest military decoration). Nov. 9-Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord Mayor of London. Aeronautics...
...plot is tenuous at best, and has seen service many times before in one form or another, although the current version is not too patently obvious. Really capable acting would have made it a very serviceable movie, but unfortunately the two principal characters are guilty of over-exaggeration of their parts. While not attaining to any new artistic heights or reaching any profound depths of subtlety, it must be said, however, that as mere entertainment, "Jealousy" is perfectly commendable...
...companion piece, "Hold Your Man", the less said about this, the better. Laura La Plante holds forth for six reels in a movie devoid of plot, acting, or any other reedeeming feature, and the aggregate is merely a waste of good film...
Compared with some of his other shows, this is not their equal. The plot by no means holds up its end of the entertainment, and the individual characters, Jolson, and Marion Nixon, the pretty and sometimes rather appealing young wife, are forced to do more than their share. Davey Lee, as "Little Pal," is a deciding factor in the story, and gives a creditable performance while being so. It is the inspiration which results in the feature song of the program, also called "Little Pal." These words of emotional father love are well sung by Jolson, and are the best...