Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to one of the group, Arnold Kenseth, assistant in English and Curator of the Poetry Room, the works are "good spicy melodrama with enough 'body' for a masculine audience." Theodore Wood, Jr. 2G, who has been a consistent leading man when parts are drawn from a hat on "production nights" was more explicit. "It's good rugged stuff--all sorts of words are used without a blush." Wood did not explain whether it was the play or the players that did not "blush...
...Seeking publicity for their forthcoming production of that aged melodrama, The Drunkard, four University of Oklahoma boys staggered down the aisle of an Oklahoma City church waving a whiskey bottle, threw a State W. C. T. U. convention into an uproar. Amid screaming and fainting women, police arrived and dragged the drunks off to jail. There, when.it transpired that the whiskey was coffee, the jag a joke, the four students were let off. Said one of them: ''It was the biggest act of my career, and before the most unsympathetic audience...
...standard of "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" but good entertainment nevertheless, Alexander Korda's new movie, "Drums," at Keith Memorial this week, shows how far excellent color and exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...
...Lady Vanishes (Gaumont British) exhibits Director Alfred Hitchcock, Eng land's portly master of melodrama, at the top of his form. The ingredients of Hitch cock pictures rarely vary much. They include a beautiful English girl, a some what bewildered hero, several international spies, a code and a journey, preferably by train...
More popular in England than in the U. S., Hitchcock pictures like The 39 Steps, Secret Agent are often too intricately built and written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...