Word: plotting
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...Kaufman conceived the idea that things in Florida had gone far enough. They must be kidded. Therefore he put his plot out in the sunshine and set the Marxes to splashing around in it. Hotels, real estate and climate are treated with extreme irreverence. Somewhere in the first act there is a diamond robbery and somewhere in the second a minstrel show. The amazing Marxes contribute scene after scene of rattle-brained revelry. Groucho (with the cigar) and Harpo (he says nothing) are the principal disturbances. Mr. Berlin has contributed two excellent tunes, "A Little Bungalow" and "Florida...
...Three Live Ghosts", the Copley has a farce of unusual soundness, and last night's capacity audience was kept amused with a steadiness altogether unusual in what so often passes for comedy. The plot deals briefly with the adventures of three English soldiers, all of them officially "pushing up the daisies", who return to England...
...Plot. In six scenes scattered through the last twelve years of Robert Burns' life, John Drinkwater has tried to give not so much an historical as a spiritual biography in play form. Yet the story is not maltreated. The first scene shows him as a young plowman already cheerfully confronting woman and the unco godly in the persons of Nell and Holy Willie? laughing and singing...
...plot of the book has as its theme a reputation of the abuse recently heaped on the younger generation and satirizes the usual flaming youth. The older generation is represented by a publicity craving garter manufacturer...
...Exclusively a spoken drama, termed legitimate drama or standard drama, as distinguished from ephemeral productions such as farce comedies, burlesques and extravaganzas; said legitimate or spoken drama further defined as a play which is consecutive narrative interpreted by one set of characters, all necessary to the development of the plot, the presentation of which consumes more than one hour and 45 minutes of time, the same being a dramatic work in consecutive narrative form, reproduced and presented by animate actors portraying the roles and repeating the lines of the dramatic work, and regardless of whether such presentation is with...