Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clara Kimball Young stars in the feature attraction at the Park Theatre this week, in a well-filmed photoplay entitled "Straight From Paris". A co-feature is Frank Mayo's newest picture, "The Magnificent Brute", which offers a subtle bit of melodrama...
...Puppots of Fate," a powerful melodrama, is the main feature at the Modern, and Beacon Theatres this week, with Viola Dana in the leading role. The other leading, film is Barrie's stage success, "What Every Woman Knows"--made famous by Maude Adams; Lois Wilson and Conrad Nagel are seen in the parts originally taken by Miss Adams and Richard Bennett, respectively. Larry Semon rounds out the bill in his new laugh-producer. "The Hick...
...Pierre Corneille", which is being given by Professor Henri Guy, Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Toulouse, and Exchange Professor of French Literature, will be given at 8 o'clock this evening in Emerson D. "Professor Guy will speak in French on the subject ""Le melodrama." The lecture is open to the public...
...playwright who attempts to infuse into his drama the age-old themes of passion and superstition must have a consummate skill if he is to avoid common banality or overwrought melodrama; and when, as is with the case with Jacinto Benavente in America, he is almost unknown to his audiences, and must assume the full burden of proff, his task increases tenfold. Yet Benavente is sufficiently a master of his art to have overcome these difficulties and presented a play of unquestionable merit...
...Opportunity," Owen Davis' melodrama which recently concluded a long Broadway run at the 48th Street Theatre, is now playing the New York Subway Circuit prior to going on tour in the larger cities...