Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonable proportions. Chester Morris, Virginia Bruce, and Robert Taylor are all good. All the sham and hypocrisy of society doctoring is roundly denounced by Young Surgeon Morris who keeps up with his profession to the extent of knowing all about the brand new Steiglitz Abdominal Technique. The plot is cleverer than the average, and is sufficient to hold up an overemphasized character. The scenes all take place within the hospital, and are of a much wider range than one would imagine. There are shysters, big shot gangsters, unfortunate policemen, handsome doctors, ugly, bad doctors, pretty, good nurses, and beautiful...
...revival is "Animal Kingdom," starring Ann Harding as the mistress whose lover was unfaithful to her, via his wife. The superficiality of the plot, and the obvious trickness of the reversed situation of wife and mistress, does not make this film worth seeing, but "The Count of Monte Cristo" is worth the sacrifice. Better still, arrive after the one, and just before the other...
...wealthiest group of students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this point as it would be on the most burning social question. Nor should the wealth of the Club men spin the plot. If they oat seven or fourteen meals per week in the House dining-rooms they should pay a rate representing as nearly as possible what such a number of meals is worth...
...plot thickened when abstemious Richard Roiderer set out to rescue from Munich saloonkeepers another teacher, dissolute Hans Wohlfahrt, letting him sleep in his room and introducing him to his fiancée, Margaret Sichert. "Together we three had nice, long discussions about music and books and art," testified Prisoner Roiderer. "My landlady, however, advised me to 'Be a man' and send Wohlfahrt away from my fiancee. I concede my holy stupidity. Wohlfahrt is not so-good a German...
...Influenced by Emile Gaboriau and Wilkie Collins, she published her first work, The Leavenworth Case, in 1878, nine years before Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet. A bestseller, it ran to 150,000 copies, is still in demand. Author Green's favorite plot ingredients: the murderer is the first to announce the crime; someone passing a door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green's stanch belief in its fallibility. In some 20 of her 36 books, the hero...