Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Things Happen. Clemence Dane, English lady, author of Will Shakespeare and A Bill of Divorcement, has a new melodrama on American boards. A very dreadful affair culminating in a slap. Katherine Cornell plays the heroine under the Jane Austen name of Shirley Pride. But Shirley is not at all a Jane Austen character. Her manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price...
...hardly boasts two more accomplished comediennes than Grace George and Laura Hope Crews. The scenes between them are studies in the impalpable artistry of personality. The cast of their compatriots is evenly competent, distinguished in the playing of Mary Ellis and Arthur Sinclair. Aside from some disturbing descents into melodrama and the rather obvious machinery of plot, the play is a decided addition to the display spread for the metropolitan multitude...
...LADY-The rumble of melodrama returning like a pleasant echo from the hills of 20 years...
...NEXT ROOM-Hushed melodrama of the who-killed-him school of mysteries...
...more than the usual amount of intense drama. The strong silent physician who loves and loses is a new face in the gallery of Merrick. The situation of the nurse who gives her life for the child of the man who had betrayed her is a new venture into melodrama. On the whole, a book for the true believer in its author, but not one to win him new disciples...