Word: plotting
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...plot, though hackneyed, receives a sincere portrayal from the principals. A nice modicum of reserve in every detail of acting prevents, happily, the full realization of the chance for gross emotionalism. Such a background, of course, forms a perfect foil behind any genuine female charm, and Miss Helen Hayes takes full advantage of her chance. She is an unconvincing Chinese, but a superb mistress of the situation. Lien Wah's delicately expressive hands, and quaint self obliteration weave an incapable feminine charm through all the mess of uninteresting Oriental gore...
...Boles in "Child of Manhattan," and "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" with Al Jolson and Madge Evans. The first of these pictures is a witty, sophisticated story of life in the big city and points west. The lines in it are good with occasional touches of double meaning. The plot, while a trifle emotional, is not at all dripping; in fact in some touching scenes, where usual University audiences would laugh, there were moist eyes...
...hero abandoned by the Greeks on Lemnos on their way to Troy, and later eagerly sought by them when he and his famous bow were needed for the capture of the city, had been treated by both Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles made changes in the myth which lift the plot from the level of a common intrigue to a study of the highest psychological and ethical interest. He intensified the loneliness of the here by making Lemnos a deserted island, where Philoctetes lived in hardship, a prey alike to paroxysms of intense physical pain from the noisome wound...
...plot is simply the story of the production of a musical comedy. Warner Baxter plays the imperious theatrical producer with a fiery zest which again prompts the Playgoer to express the hope that some day, somehow, by accident perhaps, Warner Brothers will give him a real part. Ruby Keeler is the "green kid out of the chorus" who is selected to play the lead when the star breaks her ankle the night before opening. Bobe Daniels was the star and quite a satisfactory one, too, right up to the last. At this point, ha, ha, that is, were you ever...
...compiling these journals Mr. de Forest has brought forth one of the few books of actual facts on the taking of Louisburg that has ever been printed. It has no embellishments to put it in the class of a popular history, it contains no plot, but it gives to those interested in this aspect of colonial history an authentic, fascinating, and original chronicle...