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...told the King that the situation was even graver than he thought!" flashed former Prime Minister Jose Sanchez Guerra, leader of an abortive plot two years ago to overthrow the Dictatorship (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929). "His Majesty came forward and clasped me in his arms, saying, 'It is good to see you, Jose...
America's Sweetheart is notable if only for its refreshing little plot, which consistently refuses to run the usual course of musicomedies. The standard Act I finale finds the Boy and the Girl bitterly disappointed through some unfortunate misunderstanding, whereupon one or the other inevitably sings a snatch of the show's torch song and wanders hopelessly away. In America's Sweetheart, however, when Jack Whiting sees that his girl friend (Harriette Lake) is about to throw him over for a big cinemagnate, he breaks into a sullen soft-shoe dance with Gus Shy, the comic...
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...