Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Procurcur Hallers came next. It was a frank melodrama on the Jekyll and Hyde theme with a woman added...
COBRA?Through the sundown summer season, this melodrama of the temptress Eve story twitched its tail bravely and with the coming of the new season has wriggled to renewed popularity...
...attention of the listeners was fixed as if it had been heartthrobs and anguish. These were to have their sway later on, for although "Saint Joan" is indeed a controversy, it is before that a play. Those who prefer Shaw in his philosophical mood may even call it melodrama--but then, a little melodrama is not a dangerous thing...
COBRA?The snake makes drama still, even as when Eve first found it in the grass. Mostly melodrama...
Cyril Maude first came to America on account of ill health at an early age. In Denver, Colorado, he made his stage debut in the fall of 1884 as a servant in the popular melodrama "East Lynne". The next year he returned to England and there he made his first London appearance at the Criterion Theatre as Mr. Pilkie in "The Great Divorce Case". Since that time he has appeared in many plays both in England and America...