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Word: melodrama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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COBRA-A sounding melodrama, recalling Eve and the snake, which is not made for those demanding sublety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Oct. 20, 1924 | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...play shouts at the top of its voice for lovers of morbid melodrama. As a serious discussion of character disintegration, it is preposterous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 13, 1924 | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

Havoc. Two War plays from London are on the list this year, successes both across the Sea. The first is Havoc. The second, The Conquering Hero, which will enter town via the Theatre Guild. Havoc is a front-line melodrama, highly charged with the forces of excitement, toned with tragedy and substantially spattered with romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

Through this cloudy background of tragedy, there penetrate the necessary shafts of laughter. Yet the vigorous values of the play rest in the sting and glitter of its melodrama. As such, it is one of the finest plays that has developed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

SWEENEY TODD - A dust-covered English melodrama revived to let us laugh at what our ancestors took seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Sep. 8, 1924 | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

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