Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purely on their value as good theatre to carry them over. As theatre they go over, but what gave promise of being a problem play that would not soon be outdated by the quick solution of the problem in the world outside the theatre, turns into a rather good melodrama whose prime fault is that its personal basis in the second and third acts seems woefully insignificant after its cosmic one in the first...
...Humbug is an abstruse excursion into hypnotism with the excellent John Halliday. It quavers between melodrama and advanced psychology without notable contributions to either field...
...accomplishes the feat the whole matter will promptly be forgotten. Needless to say, Legrange treads the ledge safely, guilty only of shielding a woman's guilt. The harrowing quality of the ledge scene fails to mitigate Playwright Paul Osborn's long, tedious stretches. This idle melodrama is the second presentation of the New York Theatre Assembly which, sponsored by wealthy, smart Manhattanites, exists to present "amusing plays, in an intimate theatre, before a selected audience." A Ledge follows an exceedingly short-lived comedy called Lolly (TIME...
...atmosphere of a mystery-melodrama was the tax announcement framed. First President Hoover held an early morning White House conference with Secretary Mellon, Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, Governor Roy Archibald Young of the Federal Reserve Board. So early in the morning was it and so unprepared were newsmen for such a development that Governor Young, unrecognized, entered and left the White House without being caught and catechized...
...extremely difficult to pass judgment on an old-fashioned melodrama of the type of "After Dark", now playing at the Shubert Apollo, chiefly because standards of criticism have changed so greatly that for one whose theatre-going has all been in the present, so to speak, there are no comparisons on which to base an opinion. Hastily constructed standards will have to suffice...