Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?Bernard Shaw's version of rebellion?half psychology, half melodrama. Sophisticated snorers had best instruct the usher to wake them before the last act in which Roland Young's performance is more than worth any half hour's sleep...
ZANDER THE GREAT-Shrewd mixture of comedy and melodrama on an Arizona ranch. Alice Brady cast in the first play worthy of her talents...
...sweetheart. For a time the girl supports him, but after much unhappiness he runs away again to join the colors. Mr. Paul has chosen a theme to repel most readers, but admitting the character of his plot, he has infused it with dignity and pathos, without any descent into melodrama...
...Christianity in the South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine. U. S. Marines, real rain, and the hot, moist breath of the tropics. SEVENTH HEAVEN-A blacksnake whip and an off-stage rendering of La Marseillaise are the emotional assistants to Helen Menken in a thrilling melodrama of Paris. KIKI-Lenore Ulric still turning 'em away at the Belasco Theatre. The story of a little Paris grisette who wasn't half so bad as she painted herself. THE ADDING MACHINE - Expressionistic projection of an humble Babbitt called Mr. Zero. A satirical arraignment of bourgeois justice...
...always easy to pick flaws in a play of this description and Dodson Mitchell's melodrama is no exception. Here things work out a bit too easily and the "long arm of coincidence" is surprisingly helpful. But in order to combat this, the author has busied himself more with the earlier denouements and complications, and allowed the audience to guess the final outcome. For example, before the play was half over, it was not a difficult matter to determine which half of the dual-role would win the hero, but it was not easy to accept all of the various...