Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MELODRAMA THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN?A court room in which the world may sit in judgment on beauty and the beast...
...MELODRAMA...
...play in question can hardly be said to be the "melodrama of New York's under world" which the program sets it forth as being. It does deal with crooks, and in this case the efforts of a group of them to go straight, but it is considerably removed from the realism which surrounded such pieces as "Crime". But in the one feature which makes so many mystery and "crook" plays unendurable, "Tenth Avenue" redeems the faults of all the others. The comedy stretches are funny. The wisecracks inserted from time to time to relieve suposed tension, are exceptionally good...
...MELODRAMA...
...Juana is a town just across the Mexican border famed for ruthless infamy. In Tia Juana, it is said, one may go swiftly and uncouthly to perdition. Trading upon this no doubt hard-earned reputation, a melodrama has been christened for the town. It is a leaden thing, studded with murder, Chinamen smuggling, federal agents; almost every element of melodrama except excitement...