Word: melo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hearty reception given his latest play "The Princess Zim-Zim." Although the program labels this piece very simply as "a new play" it might well be called a semi-tragic comedy of realism: a first act of pure and unusually delightful comedy, a second and third of good melo-drama, and finally an epilogue that makes appeals by way of its persistence in sticking to facts, as ordinarily experienced. All in all, one might have wished for more like the beginning; yet the play holds throughout, and as acted by Miss Dorothy Donnelly, Mr. John Barrymore and an even company...