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SOME DAY I'LL KILL You-Dana Chambers-Dial ($2). Murder and mayhem in the Connecticut countryside. Fast and witty, despite the somewhat Flash Gordon plot...
With a big plot transfusion from "The Citadel," Hollywood has tried to revive a hackneyed nurse-doctor, plot called. "Four Girls in White," the second feature. The patient died during the transfusion...
...Gaylord Dillingham '40, president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals, generously gave the Lions permission to use the title, adding that "we'd also be glad to help them patch up their plot, which seems pretty weak." Both musicals deal with the forthcoming New York World's Fair...
...pressure to match their own immoral strength. Both the Hubbards and their playwright-inquisitor work at a pitch too relentless for real life. But it is the special nature of the theatre to raise emotions to higher power, somewhat simplifying, somewhat exaggerating, but tremendously intensifying. Playwright Hellman makes her plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir up genuine drama of character and will. Like the dramatists of a hardier day, Lillian...
...often that Hollywood can put as many as five interesting people together in a single movie. This is the accomplishment of "The Shining Hour," now at the University, and even better, these interesting characters rise above the limitations of a trite triangle plot and become real, credible characters. They are Joan Crawford, nightclub dancer, who marries Melvyn Douglas, a member of the rich, aristocratic family of Lindens. Robert Young, in the process of trying to prevent the marriage, falls in love with Miss Crawford himself, much to the distress of his wife, Margaret Sullavan, and his sister, Fay Bainter. Outstanding...