Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talents are given more than adequate support by the suave charm of Tullio Carminati, the explosive humour of Louis Alberni, and the truly excellent technical and musical work which have been expended on this picture. Despite these other virtues, however, the film is all Miss Moore's. The plot is simple and straightforward and has the great advantage of providing Miss Moore with the maximum opportunity for using her voice. She sings all sorts of music ranging from the modern "One Night of Love" to the difficult last act aria of Madame Butterfly all with finished technique and remarkable richness...
...Great Waltz (by Moss Hart; Max Gordon, producer) is a musical biography of Johann Strauss -("The Blue Danube'') and his able father. The plot is laid in the Habsburgs' Vienna of 1844, the year the young Strauss, stepping out of the shadow of his father's contemporary fame, made his name overnight leading the orchestra 'in his own waltzes at Dommaver's Casino in the fashionable suburb of Heitzing. Until the father's death five years later, the two Johann Strausses were bitter rivals for the title of Waltz King...
...ambition and despair before the great night at Dommayer's, his suspicions of his father's jealousy, his waverings between music and marriage, and ends at Dommayer's with the father proudly waltzing to his son's and successor's music. The plot is intelligent, simple and reasonably true to history. The music has been spared the usual interpolations and "improvements." A chorus of 100. a ballet of 40, an orchestra of 54 supply background for the theme...
...room-mate was a "little upset" last year at the prospect of being so intimate with the heastie, but this year's neighbors seem to take it in good part although the plot may thicken if Barnard's enterprising snake-fancier his wish to add an eight-feet pine snake and a bos-constrictor to his little family...
...Diane realizes Field's dependence upon her and returns to marry him. Her life with Field only serves to sharpen her realization of her love for Brady and after a tremendous struggle within herself she is finally saved by the generous defection of Field from the scene. This hackneyed plot is easily counterbalanced by the attractiveness of Miss Crawford and Mr. Gable's genial masculinity. The lines are good and the photography excellent in spots. For all except the most incorrigible high-brows this is bound to provide an entertaining hour...