Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carolina mountain types. The brilliant promise of her first play is only sluggishly sustained. The Shame Woman deals with the seduction of two girls by the same man at an interval of 20 years. In each of the villain's words critics detected the echoes of "10-20-30" melodrama. The production was chiefly notable for the excellent performance of Florence Rittenhouse in the title part...
SEVENTH HEAVEN - Melodrama with snatches of comedy demonstrating the charm of Helen Menken against a background of the gutters and garrets of Paris in Wartime...
...wrong and they did. Son John was electrocuted for killing daughter Jessie's lover. Son James became an alcoholic; and daughter Jessie, though unwed, began sewing on tiny garments. So Peter was left a deserted, broken old man, to realize that pride goes before a fall. A forceful melodrama, smoothly played, starring Frank Keenan and displaying Judith Anderson as one of our best younger actresses...
...sufficiently clever little melodrama, which is not entirely disclosed until the third act at least, and even then reserves a surprise for the end in the shape of an unexpected technicality. This frees the hero after he has had the satisfaction of slaying the villain, and consequently causes great rejoicing to all, and no little surprise to the people on the stage, who never seem to expect felicitous endings. As is customary, the villain is a rejected suitor of the heroine, while naturally, the hero is the accepted one. Filled with well-simulated hatred, the villain arranges a charming little...
Zeno. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be annoyed to learn that ectoplasm is not taken seriously by the producers of this singular melodrama. In the middle of a second act seance various ectoplasmic entities wander about the darkness sicklied o'er with the pale cast of greenish spotlights. It is subsequently explained that the entities are bogus and controlled by wireless from the next door attic...