Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a month, the World Bank had dangled over a precipice like a melodrama heroine. Last week, while financiers cheered lustily, the Bank was snatched from disaster's clutches. Its rescuer was no wavy-haired glamor boy, but John Jay McCloy, 51, a bald and chunky Manhattan corporation lawyer who had done a bang-up administrative job as Assistant Secretary...
...other. The opera house serves, too, as a huge, machine-like symbol of a nation. Opera lovers will dote on the Puccini sound track, but moviegoers who have no special affection for opera are likely to find the protracted, underlighted operatic sequences dull. There is, however, some good fierce melodrama which almost anyone can enjoy...
...House (Sol Lesser; United Artists) is a melodrama with a number of differences-most of them to the good. Its story is at once more out-of-the-ordinary and more true-to-life than most...
Somewhat more modestly, Miss Kerr will very soon be exposed to U.S. cinemaddicts. The exposure is a clever little British-made melodrama about Nazi spies in Ireland called The Adventuress (Eagle-Lion; English title: I See a Dark Stranger). Whatever the result of this more critical encounter, few who see her can miss the fact that Cinemactress Kerr carries The Adventuress as effortlessly as a hat box. Almost nobody at all will miss the fact that Cinemactress Kerr looks like everything Englishmen mean when they become lyrical about roses. Given this primary stuff that stars are made...
...tycoon father, then squashed by his contemptuous, ambitious wife. He has come to loathe her, and when he learns that their son is really his father's, he is spurred to action. Her world threatened, his wife speedily emerges a fine old-fashioned villainess, and Little A becomes melodrama with a big M. The curtain bangs down retributively on a woman who, meaning to shoot her husband, has killed...