Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SILENCE?The season's single mystery melodrama which has stood the test of ever increasing scepticism on the part of an increasingly blasé public...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED - Genteelly disguised melodrama, cleverly tricked out by California sunshine into an air of vital profundity...
Interwoven in this uneven melodrama is the suggestion, to be expected, of men being the sport of hidden strings of fate and passion. But sometimes, as in the actual marionette show put upon the stage, the strings are made too evident by the dramatist. Effects of huge shadows and splashes of vivid color sometimes divert attention from the fact that the characters themselves are pulled about in jerks. Miriam Hopkins, erstwhile of musical comedy, and Fredric March as the lover have several plangent scenes together, and C. Henry Gordon pitches about energetically as the husband. But the trail...
Stark Young - "A little melodrama, brightened with the happy gaucheries of puppets in their wires and plumes and shields of brass, but delayed with a loosely threaded tale and vaguish manner of telling...
...program of thirteen numbers and two reminiscences proved much of the same sort as last year's. There was melodrama in "Stenka Razin", high tragedy in "The King Orders the Drums to be Beaten", sentiment in "A Winter Evening", sentimentality in "The Arrival at Bethlehem", sugar-sweet delicacy in many others, and varying degrees of piquancy, satire, burlesque, and buffoonery in the rest. Their were pleasures for all tastes. Color, line, and grace abounded; the characters, whenever there were any, stood out distinctly in the talents of the actors, but best of all were the voices. Whether in verse...