Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LADY-The drumhead of old-fashioned melodrama perfectly pounded by Mary Nash and a well trained troupe...
...Rendezvous. So flamboyant was the melodrama of this singular narrative of the downtrodden royal party of Russia that certain commentators took it to be satire...
...story concerns a millionaire who is threatened, first by a letter and then given two hours to live, by a telephone message. His daughter and heir, in love with an Irish gentleman, is also warned, and after the father is sacrificed in the interest of melodrama, slain in the most mysterious, unaccountable fashion, the effort to save the daughter becomes the mainspring. There is a good, rugged detective, who is not entirely without intelligence, like most stage detectives and a fair share of off-stage ones, and the millionaire's secretary, who assists in throwing the audience onto the wrong...
...LADY-A cheerfully old-fashioned melodrama that stirs you in spite of yourself...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?Melodrama of Paris in War-time soothed to a syrupy conclusion. Worth while because of Menken's magnificent performance...