Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ELMS-Eugene O'Neill's treatment of the same old man, young wife and lover situation. More deeply tragic, more directly frank. WHITE CARGO - The horror of the white for the brown melts away under the lonely suns of Africa. SILENCE-The good old crook-and-virtue melodrama played to excellent emotional returns by H. B. Warner. OLD ENGLISH-An unsatisfactory "old British gentleman" play by Galsworthy made into keen entertainment by George Arliss' performance. THE WILD DUCK-Reviewed in this issue
When the curtain went up on "The Swan" last Monday night, the audience at the Hollis watched unfold a play of many moods. Satire bordering on burlesque, comedy on the comic, sentimentality on melodrama--the humors theatrical were well represented. Conceived in a graceful ease that could be only Continental, cloaked in dignity by the translation of Melville P. Baker '22, and conveyed to the audience by a company at once able and sincere, Ferenc Molnar's play established itself as entertainment in the most hospitable sense of the word...
...expense attached to immorality. The point is made by displaying a man and a woman in residence without benefit of clergy. The man finally pulls a gun on himself. Side by side with this fable is, of course, the happily married pair, living thus ever after. As a cheap melodrama, the film is not bad; as a criticism of the current social system, it is grotesque...
...depicted, in a sense, as a crime in itself. The familiar old device of showing a prisoner convicted by circumstantial evidence is employed. He didn't do it. You know he didn't; everybody knows it; but it takes the film several reels of rather weary melodrama to convince its own authorities...
...James players proved once more that they are at their best in melodrama. Mr. Collier was given first class support, particularly by Mr. Nedell, Mr. Richards, and Miss Blakeney. Mr. Richards paid the penalty of being known as a comedian, and the audience persisted in tittering in anticipation of the laughs that did not come...