Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effusive and Mme. Darmand took advantage of the comic elements in the role of Choice, "fat and forty," but still a devotee of romance. R. D. Skinner '15 was effective as the jealous husband, although his expressions at times bespoke rather those of the villain of melodrama. M. Darmand was a masterly Claude Barrois, thoroughly finished in his action and singularly successful in change of mood. The minor parts were fairly well presented, in spite of a certain uneasiness of gesture and posture. L. W. Coleman '16 in the opening act was admirable as Justin, the tourists' guide...
Like the great majority of present-day farces, "Believe Me, Xantippe!" depends very largely for its humor on its melodramatic touches. To have been told ten years ago that melodrama was on the way to becoming ludicrous would have been sacrilege; yet in this day of self-styled musical comedy the "blood and thunder" is quite the funniest thing we have on our stage--except of course in the "movies" where, fortunately for us, the sinning and the sinned-against are polite enough to allow themselves to be seen but never heard. It is perhaps this speaking out in meeting...
...other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long for blood and lust even to melodrama...
...entirely different person when he is called upon to use his ability as a safe-breaker to release a child from the bank vault. This he does in a very intense scene, thus disclosing his identify. His enemy, however, wilfully allows him to escape the one touch of unadulterated melodrama in the play and the final curtain sees Valentine and his sweet-heart happy again...
...melodrama which Euripides infused into Greek life made him known as an iconoclast and prophet of a new thought. But it is the difficulties encountered in the translation of his works that leads to the charge of pedantry against him. Euripides as a thinker shows that he had not attained unity and harmony in himself although he had a nicety of observation and epithet. As a dramatist his technique is beyond our scope. As a poet he had many faults, but he had great poetical magic...