Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SEVENTH HEAVEN?Drama in a Paris garret, revolving about a modern Cinderella whose wicked big sister beats her. The worm turns and Helen Menken flagellates her evil relative with a blacksnake whip in a moment of thrilling melodrama...
...last Monday night was right behind Civic Virtue all the time. Encouraged by tremendous enthusiasm, the actors had a tendency to a declamatory utterance and self-consciousness the moment the action became tense, which revealed every dramatic absurdity in the play. How could they help it?-There was tremendous melodrama of life, and There was an audience craving raw meat: They...
SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY?Laurette Taylor enjoying herself in a very old-fashioned melodrama-romance in which ladies wear yard- wide hats and gentlemen lace pants. A clean show about Charles...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE;?Bernard Shaw's version of rebellion?half psychology, half melodrama. Sophisticated snorers had best instruct the ushers to wake them before the last act in which Roland Young's performance is more than worth any half hour's sleep...
...White man in the "silent purple wastes of the Arizona desert" even including the special "Indian" music. It is followed by a pseudo-historical play, "Napoleon's Barber" by Arthur Caesar, of a familiar pattern. The third play, "Goat Alley" by Ernest Howard Culbertson, is saved from being sheer melodrama by its characterization. Floyd Dell's scintillating little comedy "Sweet and Twenty" and "Tickless Time" by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, though the latter is more or less trick writing, are highly amusing and the first notable plays of the group...