Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blackmer seems to have been led to assert himself in order to energize this new play. A mystery melodrama by one Hubert Osborne, it is the direct antithesis of the pieces in which Blaekmer has lately been appearing, most of which have been decorously whispered behind the hand...
...Bedroom Window. The main mystery in this mystery melodrama is whether the audience are supposed to take it seriously. It deals with the solution of a murder during which most of the cast act, at times, in the most exquisitely idiotic manner. Ethel Wales, for instance, portrays a mannish woman novelist, who smokes insidious cigarettes and solves the crime, principally by climbing across an apartment house court on an ironing board. Even May McAvoy, who generally seems real even when the rest of the picture goes hang, is made to appear just a goofy little birdie. At that, the picture...
Meanwhile Otis and his brother Charles were writing a melodrama, The Red Signal, which eventually enjoyed a brief run in Chicago. Feeling the time was not ripe for him to embark by himself as a manager, Mr. Skinner joined forces with Edwin Booth, who was just past his prime and had begun to rest on his laurels. Shakespeare and Restoration Comedy were the order...
...remembered that some years ago Marjorie Rambeau met with her first great success in that violent melodrama, "The Eyes of Youth". Having at last seen the play without her charming presence, we wonder how she ever managed to do it. The task mush have been a great...
...content with overworking this time-worn device, the authors go on to pack their scenes with soul-tearing and ear-splitting melodrama which at times verges on farce. Indeed it seemed to us that this play should not have been chosen, especially for the limited scope of a stock company...