Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play is frankly impressionistic in places, strongly melodramatic in others. Yet the impressionism is usually well done, and the melodrama seldom overplayed. "Trilby," as an evening's entertainment, well acted, well staged, and well produced, is decidedly worth while...
...Union tonight at 8.30 o'clock. The affair promises to be a pronounced success since the committee has secured the right to feature a seven-reel film, entitled. "Between Savage and Tiger." which is a good example of the efficiency reached by motion pictures in the reproduction of melodrama. Cigarettes and refreshments will be on hand in abundance and additional entertainment in the form of music will be furnished...
...Junior class will hold a smoker in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. A thrilling melodrama, "Between Savage and Tiger," in seven reels, has been secured by the committee in charge of the affair, after the most arduous exertions...
...college journalism. Mr. McCormick's story, which struggles from time to time with a dialect only half digested from "The Tragedy of Nan," suffers less on that account than one might imagine. The last page has a genuine, if uncanny, power. Mr. Jacobs's dialogue, which is not melodrama, is an amusing skit on the political honor of our Mexican neighbors...
...conflict, too apathetic to be moved by the peril of thirty thousand men, is by an insult which would seem comparatively trivial to others, but which wounds her only pride, suddenly turned into a fury of righteousness, and, without knowing it, becomes a national heroine. This may be melodrama in its superficial appearance, but at bottom it is something far better. I am greatly mistaken if "The Clod" is not the best one act drama that has been seen here for several years, and if it has not all the essential qualities of well merited success on the professional stage...