Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the limbo of crazy plots and hysterical melodrama, D.W. Griffith has brought "That Royle Girl" and just why he has done it is still open to doubt. Supposing that Mr. Griffith is still capable of another "Birth of a Nation," it might be well for him to hunt around for a story. As it is he has gone to work with W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster and a lot of wind machines. It may be even possible that the wind machines were borrowed from other sets, because it seems impossible that a normal supply could create such a fiendish storm...
...there has been a deal of unnecessary mystification, much of it "bunk" about this "theatre theatrical" about "the theatre of the soul" and "the souls of the theatre", about Monodrama and Melodrama, about Impressionism and Expressionism, about Physico-psychology and Psycho-analysis, about all the clashing symbols of the sexy saxophone. "Lampy" is justified in his jests about those followers of the Dramatic Club who take all this jargon too seriously. The fact is Evreinov himself preaches that nothing in life is to be taken seriously. That is his cardinal principle. His play is none of these "-isms...
...unpleasantly accurate, it is time to go home much sooner. The Joker is a wordy and obvious melodrama. Mr. Morgan is far too good an actor to play this sort of thing, in which he is one jump ahead of the villain, poverty and cuckoldom...
...Last Edition was doomed to dislike by the newspaper commentators. It is a newspaper melodrama done without regard to verity. Possibly it is not so utterly unlike journalism as society pictures are unlike society, or Parisian underworld pictures are unlike Montmartre. Rich people and French cocottes have no opportunity and probably small inclination to complain, but not so the critics when they dislike the distorted version of their colleagues. Furthermore it was pretty stilted melodrama...
...Ancient Highway. Jack Holt and Billie Dove wasted several weeks in making this one. It is a preposterously usual and unusually preposterous melodrama of the logging countries...