Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RHINELANDER FAILS TO ANNUL MARRIAGE" headed nearly a column of type. Another act of the melodrama of miscegenation that followed the marriage of blue-blood Leonard Kip Rhinelander to mulatto Alice Jones dragged by as the Court of Appeals upheld all previous decisions denying the annulment application. Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, cast off, said: "This shows that my case was founded on truth." With the judgment, her $300 a month alimony stops; she must start a separation suit to gain an allowance...
...starts John Garth back to life by leaving Matthew Knowle. . . . Admirers of the British literary male will call Julia "a brick" and the book a triumph. Others may say that Author Owen, a polished writer withal, has merely sublimated a personal desire in the tepid crucible of melodrama...
There are parts of "The Allinghams" which are curious mixtures of the old fashioned and the modern. Thus Angle, who of all the children is probably the most interesting and the most human, finds herself in a position which might have been transferred wholly from some cheap melodrama, but she conducts herself as regards her dilemma with the primitiveness of a Sherwood Anderson creation, not only challenging the world but challenging it with a barbaric splendor. Likewise with the tone of the entire book; its actual period is the nineties of the last century but its spirt and menner...
Last week in the Governor's house at Albany, Alfred Emanuel Smith, four-time Governor of New York, thumbed the tattered pages of a manuscript of a roaring melodrama of old Ireland, The Shaughraun. Eyes twinkling with kindly memories he read his lines: in May he is to play the part of the black-hearted villain in the plot, Cory Kinchela, at the 100th birthday of St. James Catholic Church, Manhattan. In that parish his early days were spent; three times before he has played the villain of The Shaughraun...
Historical material was furnished by Hermann Hagedorn, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Much of his research is incorporated into the film ably directed by Victor Fleming. Primarily, however, the object was a tingling war melodrama, not a historical epic...