Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tiger Rose" is itself a typical melodrama, and Mr. Mack would have done better if he had revised his play in the places where the dialogue smacks too much of "The Tavern". In an intensely melodramatic moment in the last act, Bruce Norton ends his speech by uttering in a hoarse whisper "Damn him!", and the doctor hoarsely whispers back "My God!" Whereupon the audience bursts out laughing. Nevertheless melodrama is melodrama, and it would never do for the heroine to talk pidgin-English without a steady flow of "damn" and "hell". For the audience loves...
...eighty-three years Bulwer Lytton's "Richelieu" has had a lease on the English stage. The melodrama will inevitably complete a full ninely-nine year lease and then, unworthily, gain a renewal. Its life has been long, not because of any particular merits of the play as a drama of character, beautiful verse, or deep significance, but because the part of the Cardinal affords excellent opportunities to an actor. For that reason alone it has survived on the stage, and escaped its deserved fate as a piece for the class-room illustrating the theatrical tastes of our grandfathers that helped...
Once more the Jewett Company turns from several weeks of comedy to the more exciting fields of melodrama-or in this case something worthy of the more exacting description of"story play", For "Raffles", which is the offering at the Copley this week, is as different from "East Lynne' and other plays of that class as "Othello" is from "Declassee". Written way back in the dark ages (1903), it none the less closely resembles the best of our current "thrillers" where the light comedy touch is not always unfelt beneath the clammy grip of Horror, and of which "the Green...
...being shown here serially. At the end of each month the "Y" puts on a show for those students who spend their monthly holiday at the college. These shows have provided some of the best entertainment of the year. There has been a mock court trial, a one-act melodrama called "A Game of Chess," and a gymnastic exhibition, among other attractions...
Plymouth.-"The Green Goddess" by William Archer. A Conventional melodrama lifted into the extraordinary by Winthrop Ames's producing and George Arliss's acting...