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...Canary, has done this one badly in a trick yacht interior which rolls and pitches with uncanny naturalness. "How did this yacht party get cut adrift; and are these young lovers brother and sister; and who planted the bomb?" seems to be the plot. Sedative...
RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader...
...plot there is none. Mozart comes, arriving before two audiences well prepared for him, one before the footlights, one behind. Mozart goes, leaving behind him two audiences, both baffled. This youth of scarcely a score succeeds in three short acts in turning the heads of at least four women, and on the eve of his return to Salzbourg in dropping the apple of discord among them. One he loved. But whom...
...likely to open a Manhattan theatre of dreamy elliptical architecture, hung with gorgeous tapestries, rich with color? Florenz Ziegfeld. In it he presented no Follies last week, but a musical comedy with fresh, feathery ballet dancers and a chorus that made strong men sigh. Rio Rita had a plot-something to do with oil leases and statesmen. A plot however, is mere parsley when the eyes and ears are well feasted. Pinwheel. Expressionism went on a debauch at the Neighborhood Playhouse (Manhattan) last week. Coney Island calliopes tooted, factory whistles shrieked, elevated trains jangled, klaxons yowled, saxophones clucked and gurgled...
...Last Trail (Thomas Mix). It is a relief, now and then, to sit back and consume a westerner a picture where the hero streaks across the horizon on his able, horse, waves his lasso, humiliates the suave villain, rescues a milk-fed maiden. The plot is worthless; Zane Grey wrote it. The action is great; Cowboy Mix, Horse Tony, Bloodhound Blinkerton, two careening stage coaches...