Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coquette. What seems reliably like the finest play of the season arrived last week aglow with a stunning performance by Helen Hayes. The play was variously compounded out of Smith College and the intensely theatrical background of the melodrama, Broadway. In the cast of Broadway there once appeared one Ann Preston Bridgers, Smith girl, potential playwright. Her manuscript came under the canny eye of George Abbott, one of the authors of Broadway, and when he was through with it Jed Harris, producer of the same success, went out and hired a troupe. To head it he hired Helen Hayes...
...MELODRAMA THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN?A court room in which the world may sit in judgment on beauty and the beast...
...Love Call. Arizona, a melodrama which flourished in 1900, is now set to music. A bevy of not so weatherbeaten song and dance men; a pretty prima donna; dauntless officers; and a team of Mexican dancers pick their way melodiously through the onetime thunderous plot. Fair music, fairer chorus girls scarcely compensate for a deadly lack of laughter...
...MELODRAMA...
...Melodrama...