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...melo-farce with dream action,--that is, the person who looks as if he might go to sleep in the first scene really does and imagines all sorts of things about the other characters. Often as this has been done in the movies, we can remember no like plot on the stage. The double drama of the main action; the suspense, the laugh, the further development that brings more suspense, then more laughter, is admirably managed.---Well, George M. Cohan wrote it, so we really don't need to analyze...
...article; but never one of my stories," he told me. "Those I write in long hand very rapidly. The actual time it takes me to produce one of these novels may be very short-as short as two months; but on the idea, on the development of the plot, I may have been working for years." Those who have watched him work will tell you that he can carry on a conversation while he is writing. This is because the writing is purely a mechanical expression of the outline which has been smoldering for months or for years...
...taste of story book Indian blood is still strong will doubtless approve of Pioneer Trails. A masterly massacre is accomplished, in which a convoy of prairie schooners with their entire personnel, is wiped out. One small child escapes, to reappear 20 years later as the hero. Thereafter, the plot is simply a stencil, cut with the old familiar tools...
...College Yard, it was learned yesterday from Mr. W. S. Burke, inspector of University grounds and buildings. The seedling was given to the University in 1916 by Mr. Leonard W. Ross of the park department of the city of Boston, and it is now growing in the large plot of grass between the steps of Widener and University Hall...
...There are no large fan downers in the Philippines. The farms are small in size and nearly every man owns his plot of ground. The uncultivated area always gives the non-landowner the opportunity to become a squatter, and thus some day to own his won property. As a result of this condition, there are practically no poor in the agricultural districts of the islands. "We, indeed, have our rich, but they do not exist to the extent that they create the poor...