Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only by afterthought...
...Experimental Theatre of Boston faces the problem of the theatre in-time everywhere in the United States. It must steer a safe course between the clashing rocks of the stock farce and melodrama and the self-conscious radicalism that leaves its seats all empty. When Winthrop Ames took Arthur Schwitzler's "Anatol" over the censorship hurdles same years ago, he beat the Foley of that day by enough so that you needn't go to settle that question. One regrets that the Experimental Theatre throws away a chance to make an honest experiment. Go, if you like...
...Melodrama before the Romantic Drama", Professor Allard, Emerson...
Generously the great Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry provided for his choosey feminine patrons two Lindberghs-Voila! Also he entitled his piece Charles Lindbergh-A Heroic Melodrama. Finally, with the cunning of a master dramatist, he supplied love interest-without offending that large section of French womanhood to whom Le Colonel is attractive chiefly as a symbol of masculine chastity...
...Melodrama. In a stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...