Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...
...MELODRAMA...
...MELODRAMA...
...Nights in a Barroom. Temperance tracts, wild wives tossing their heads, Andrew J. Volstead-none of these have withered U. S. alcoholism so effectively as this old-time melodrama. In this revival it is played with complete and proper gravity. The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However...
...Almost a melodrama, but good at that We saw this in London last summer and can't vouch for the New York cast. The play at any rate provides a good evening's entertainment...