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Word: melodrama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trapped. This melodrama is full of grisly cliches. Most of the excitement remains on the sfage side of the proscenium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

With true Irish love for the brave gesture, Donn Byrne rode debonairly to his death (TIME, July 2). Half the world still mourns the creator of magical prose (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery) and the other half, the conjuror of sentimental melodrama (Hangman's House, Crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Irishry | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...MELODRAMA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor of the performance and the oily excesses of the actors made Elmer Gantry an exciting, though phoney, melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...MELODRAMA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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