Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...early as 4 p.m. thousands began queuing up at public shelters. As they once did for theatre crowds, street singers stood by with their melancholy entertainment. Tens of thousands paid three halfpenny (about 3?) tube fares for a grimy plot of platform on which to sleep. Working-class people, with dirty blankets, tattered pillows, paper bags containing desperate entertainments-such as knitting and cards-and nourishment-such as beer and bananas-crowded the ill-ventilated way stations. The Home Secretariat ordered the police to clear the subways, but the police dared not carry out the order. The smelly...
...greatest slip in interest is the plot, which is well unravelled from the first scene. But the charm of the play is the deftness of his unravelling. It is a conflict of mellow experience against the force of change which comes crying to the small village in the person of the Reverend Ernest Dunwoody (Hiram Sherman) and the new grocer (William Post, Jr.), bent on taking the trade from Boyd's shop...
...plot has its genesis in Mr. Hart's experiences buying a farm house in Bucks County, Pa. This seems to have been such an amusing episode in the life of la famille Hart that Moss just couldn't wait to phone up his pal George, and to get to work on a new epic about the problems of New York cliff-dwellers who are suddenly transplanted to a farm house, vintage 1740. The trials and tribulations of the family include water-supply, insects in all shapes and sizes, equally troublesome relatives, and a summer theatre. "Mix all these things...
...haven't seen "Boom Town" back home, it's worth a trip downtown to find out what MGM can do with a super-budget, four stars, and a plot about oil. The oil proves to be the most savory ingredient in the mixture. It leads Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, two wildcatters, on an exciting chase from Oklahoma and the tropics, to California, from poverty to wealth, back to poverty more times than you can count. The details of a raw, booming oil town, Burkburnett, are interesting and well-handled: the oil fever, the gushers, the fires, and above...
...world of clubs and the Women's Chamber of Commerce, creates a fine job for herself at the age of 60. Mild Mrs. Lee teaches bridge to the new-rich. Brash young Lucy resolves to have a career before marriage, teaches tennis, finds fear of a Chinatown plot leading her into the arms of her patient suitor. Though The House of Lee will scarcely be immortal, Gertrude Atherton herself seems to have a pretty good chance...