Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an amazingly fresh version of the triangle indicated in its tired title. That any plot as old as this (most recent prior use: MGM's Between Two Women) can be given a new dress is a minor miracle of screen technique. It has been achieved by application of the dramatic law which holds that any situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took...
...York" ranks high in entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...
Everyone may have done his best, but the task of spreading plot and characterization evenly has proved too difficult...
Also on the program is "Marry the Girl," with Hugh Herbert and Mary Boland, which is neither more nor less than what is expected. Each player overdoes his specialty giggle in a trite plot...
Readers who read beyond this purple lead were told more soberly that Bund leaders in more than 60 camps (chiefly near New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco) do not actually plot a revolution, but plan "to wrest control from the Communist-Jews when they start their revolution.'' The Times's investigators said that each Bund post has its select uniformed force "drilled in the goose step and . . . ready for any emergency," and that the policies of the Bund weeklies duplicate those of the Hitler-controlled press. No direct evidence connected the Bund with the German...