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...happy sigh, the moonbeam future passed by this vote to Maurice Maschke, Ohio's National Republican Committeeman, Cleveland's cigar-smoking, bridge-playing boss. He himself had put Mr. Hopkins into office, only to become displeased with him, plot his removal. It was not until just before last week's meeting that he was able, after three unsuccessful party caucuses, to assemble another in Room 1050 at the Hollenden Hotel, three blocks from City Hall, to line up the 13 council votes necessary for City Manager Hopkins' removal. To succeed Mr. Hopkins, the Maschke councilmen chose...
...plot involves a war between the U. S. and Switzerland caused by a tariff on milk chocolate, but the absurdities that you expect from this idea are never quite realized. Furthermore, the costumes were apparently designed by someone who realized that lengthier skirts were in order, even upon the stage, but did not know how to compensate for non-exposure. The settings exhibit various unhappy juxtapositions of color...
...plot provides a noble red-dressed bandit, vaguely Russian, whose sister is unaccountably ruined by a prince. Bandit murders prince, drags princess of whom he is heavily enamoured through the mountrains. This princess is a blonde new to pictures named Catherine Dale Owen, whose contribution is an unnecessarily sour look while being sung to. Best shot: Tibbett, after he is captured, bellowing a song while floggers flay his naked torso in the presence of the princess...
Bystanders reflected on the havoc that uplift organizations might wreak by the purification of opera. Few plots are essentially nice; heroines are usually either unfortunate girls who have been seduced (Marguerite in Faust, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana) or unfaithful ones (Nedda in Pagliacci, Fiora in L'Amore dei Tre Re, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde). In To sea the plot hinges on whether Tosca will give herself to Scarpia to save Cavaradossi. Double beds are the most important properties in Der Rosenkavalier. Don Giovanni is a series...
...drama about divorce, a little overkeyed as such dramas are apt to be, and a little antiquated in its assumption of society's hostility to divorced people, but still effective enough to deserve smoother direction and a less squeaky recording. A lifeguard is the hinge of the plot. Having pulled Miss Chatterton out of the water, and believing his colleague's assurance that she admires him, he muscles his way into her boudoir one night and brings her trouble. Best shot: How the laughing lady, meeting at a party the lawyer who, acting for her husband, heckled...