Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shoot the Works" is the present title of the book written by R. H. Booth '27 and D. S. Gibbs '27. Laid in the open spaces of the west, the story is a broad satire on the western melodrama that has flooded the country on the stage and between the covers of novels for a number of year past. It is possible that the name of the play may be changed, but no further alterations are expected in the libretto...
Yellow-A good melodrama that started...
...created several new countries and one of them presented to the world a dramatist of recognized skill and undisputed worth. Karl Capek, Czechoslovakian dramatist, was introduced into America by his grim melodrama, "R. U. R." The public accepted it enthusiastically, but in a bewildered fashion. Then came "The Insect Comedy." And then, in the spring of 1924, the Harvard Dramatic Club presented Capek's latest play, "The Makropoulos Secret." This story of a woman who lived 300-years ran successfully in New York...
Yellow-A good melodrama that was almost better...
Fanny-Funny Fannie Brice in mushy melodrama...