Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilbur--"Courage". Janet Beecher struggles against extravagance, a frigid aunt, and a silly plot and wins...
Seen in cold type the plot, besides ending up with a sagging anti-climax, contains such venerable stage devices as the arrival of an unexpected legacy just in time to save the furniture from ravening creditors. But under the capable handling of a cast headed by Janet Beecher it takes on a plausibility and conviction that makes the final impression eminently satisfactory. Miss Beecher has the inherently unsympathetic role of a widowed mother who has squandered her childrens' patrimony through a combination of poor business judgement and extravagance and whose compensating virtues are limited to a determination to keep them...
...part evidently intended by the author to represent a typical New England spinster she exhales a frigidity and arrogant intolerance that makes it one of the most memorable characterizations of the season. Junior Blake as the youngest and incidentally illegitimate son who causes most of the complications of the plot and eventually brings it through right side up, handles a long part very capably, and the other members of the cast lend more than adequate support. All in all, the ayes have it by a large margin...
...feat of moving the Library was accomplished early in the summer, the entire building being shifted in one section. Not a book was removed from the shelves, and not a table or chair disturbed. The Library now stands in the green plot directly behind Standish Hall...
Aside from the actual plot and acting of the picture some very interesting advice is offered to the love-lorn, which ordinarily would be excellent controversial material for Dorothy Dix rather than for her younger male namesake. But this time Richard turns adviser and as might be expected, his excellent counsels are turned against him to his ultimate downfall...