Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James! "Under Cover" by Roi Cooper Megrue is a play of thrills, of Lumor and mysterious identities. To say that it was well acted is hardly sufficient. Whether the Boston Stock Company suited the play, or the reverse, at any rate, the result was an excellent performance of a melodrama that meets the exact needs of a stock company...
...character touches. All that can be done to "put the play across" the company does, and we can only place ourselves with the host of Miss Anglin's friends who regret that she should be wasting her splendid powers and company on this particular speciment of the conventional French melodrama...
...picture of youthful adventure, but it turns out to be a tale of married life, concerned chiefly with the doings of the husband and wife in a society gambling house. "Home Stuff" is an unsatisfactory attempt to make a comedy out of the "Way Down East" type of melodrama, in which Viola Dana's eyes fail to be effective...
...bits of borderland melodrama are "The Singer" by Oliver LaFarge and difficult to see what justification there is for the latter sending a good man into adversity without a proper tragic flaw in his character. Scraft remains loyal to an ill-chosen wife who possesses no lure whatever for him. Finally his virtue engenders a slow hatred and we are permitted to watch him approach destruction. The tragedy is off the stage; the audience is left without catharsis and in dismay at the outcome. Mr. LaFarge happily prefers to prefers to preserve to us a good man and rescues...
...quick-witted young hero, the Arlington Players opened the week with the first performance of "Shawn Rhue", an Irish drama in four acts by William L. Murphy. The ups and downs and the honest, Industrious Donovan family progressed all too obviously; but how little that need detract from real melodrama! A large audience was captured to the last row in the second balcony by the Irish brogue, the flow of Irish wit, the good Irish names, and the triumph of Irish ingenuity. So enthusiastic did it become that numerous suggestions were offered the actors from the floor, a stentorian...