Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THERE are certain events that are of themselves too dramatic for man to dramatize. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo with all its implications is so tremendous that any novel must of necessity diminish rather than heighten its effect. It is not a clever plot: nor is it a highly emotional tour de force. No single imagination can capture in fiction its massive significance...
...tried to combine the two he did a most unconvincing job in "St. Vitus Day." It lacks the vitality of romance and the dramatic accuracy of history. Characters which have heretofore been symbols of reaction for students or martyred heroes to laymen now become puppets in an author's plot...
...Wake" is perhaps the best of the collection. The plot is more tenuous than the others in the book, so Byrne is thrown entirely upon his own power of phraseology to carry if off successfully. It is here that we find him most like the Byrne of "The Wind Bloweth," or "Hangman's House...
...plot develops around the life of a street singer, Albert, --a life with little moments of greatness and hours of drabness. It is a very conventional story of a man who loved a woman and lost her to his best friend. There is little in this situation to lift it above the American musical comedy, but direction and photography do much to redeem its fragile motivation...
...bill is "Stampede" which happens to be an interesting photograph of jungle life. The picture is silent, although a weak musical score has been added. It has appeared in this vicinity before but in spite of its slight age, is quite worth seeing. The continuity of a plot is worked out with surprising effectiveness and the atmosphere of "darkest Africa" is quite skillfully created. Compared with the opus of Mr. Shaw, it would seem that there is something in the primitivistic movement in spite of Mr. Babbitt...