Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus the scene, and upon it Marshal Pilsudski must make his inevitably melodramatic appearance with good effect? not the reverse. During the afternoon and most of the evening JJ. Briand coached and perhaps coaxed the Marshal. Next morning the impromptu melodrama was played out at a secret session of the League Council. But details soon leaked...
Wild Geese, brushing across a cobwebbed sky, become for Judith Gare the symbol of a freedom she achieves when her father's avarice finally traps him into death. Spots of melodrama, blotches of theatrical emotion do less, to mar the story than to prove that sincere acting can make these defects seem trivial. Belle Bennett (whose reward for a fine performance in Stella Dallas has been a succession of mediocre roles) and Eve Southern (who wore dark hair and a fixed expression in The Gaucho) are competent to effect a more than satisfactory transposition of Martha Ostenso...
...MELODRAMA...
Hollis--"Tenth Avenue," 8.20 o'clock. Crooks, melodrama and the New York underworld...
...they stir his young friend to devotion. The fiance traps his friend on a high and dangerous ledge; then, at the instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive to rescue both of them. The melodrama of the story would make it seem strained in any setting; but such is the splendor of the background that probably any play of human emotions would be dwarfed against it. Brilliant photography of snow storms and ski races, capable if not superlative acting by Leni Riefenstahl, Louis Trenker...