Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doctor's Secret: One-hour version of Sir James M. Barrie's half-hour play made vocally effective by Ruth Chatterton. The Shopworn Angel: A chorus girl and a soldier, without a happy ending. The Wolf of Wall Street: Artificial but exciting melodrama of human stock and bondage. The Case of Lena-Smith: An Austrian servant-girl does not wince nor cry aloud. The Wind proves that Lillian Gish is still the best picture actress...
...foreword to the program of Mayor Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...
...suffering to give the third generation a "chance" follows Mamba through naive cajoling relationship with "her white folks" follows Hagar through backsplitting labor in the phosphate mines; ends with Lissa scoring triumph at the opera. The long process is marked off by many a high moment of comedy, tragedy, melodrama. Mamba's "my white folks" play considerable part in the book, but are important and interesting only as protectors to Mamba's daughters. The story loses force by their presence, but is the more valuable as sociology...
...with. The struggle of his loyalty against new conditions becomes a struggle between him and his stepsister. Prose, which is life itself and which can be made out of pictures even better than out of words, is the vehicle of Director Jacques Feyder. He makes as exciting as a melodrama a scene of two children ostracizing another child from a game. Other shots: the feet of farmers under a coffin fumbling on a wooden stairway; a boy who has been punished raving at the closed door of his room; a hay-harvest, and, later, an avalanche in the Swiss Alps...
Petulant and glum, last week, was the mood of famed Actor-Manager M. Sacha Guitry. Sacré bleu! Why were not more people clambering to see his Charles Lindbergh-his "heroic melodrama" in 30 scenes? What could be the matter? Had not finickiest critics praised the piece (TIME, Dec. 3.); and had not the first few audiences risen to shout "Vive Lindbergh! Vive La France...