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...definite arrangement has been reached yet as to what kind of a play the Club will give. Sentiment seems to be divided between a revue with a sales of specialties and a play with an indicate plot. The decision depends on the action of the Committee in charge of the selection of the play. This choice will be made in the early part of December, and in the meantime all men who intend to write plays have been asked to hand in a synopsis of their work at 16 Rollis Hall by Monday night, November...
...plot is built around a rich heir who allowed a friend to take his college education in his name while he was going through all the prerequisites for the return of the prodigal. He is in love with the daughter of his guardian, but when another girl sues him for breach of promise the conventionally gruff old man cuts off his allowance and forbids him to see his daughted. Then comes the need of money, and the inspiration for a new way to make...
...Forsyte, collector of pictures. Catastrophe overtook these gentlemen through the Providential Premium Reassurance Society, known to its intimates as the P. P. R. S. Manager Elderson of the Society brought ruin upon it and then decamped. So they retired from the board with dignity and little else. A sub-plot-in many respects the best thing in the book-tells of the tribulations of Tony Bicket and his girl-wife, Victorine, units of the inarticulate masses. Tony was caught "snooping" books from the publishing firm for which he worked and of which Michael was a member...
...many other writers, he started his artistic career drawing rather than writing and then discovered his aptitude lay in the telling of stories. Perhaps this explains why he has always preferred to dwell more on intimate character sketches of Cape Cod folk rather than to bother too greatly with plot. He sees his quaint people whole and puts them on paper so, sketches them lightly and then inks them in with dialogue and anecdote, the situation furnishing a light background to the picture. The other thing I discovered about Mr. Lincoln was that when...
...plot involved in the production is not very weighty ballast. Lady Huntworth, the defendant in a recent divorce case, seeks retirement in the disguise of a cook in the home of an elderly ulcar. Here she makes a real success, turning out fascinating edibles and causing queer vibrations in the hearts of the male population. Among these is Captain Dovaston, who is preparing to carry out the dying wish of his old leader, Colonel Pillenger, by marrying Lucy Pillenger, his daughter. Lusy upsets this arrangement by a runaway marriage with a young curate, and the captain hurries off to find...