Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's Government got down to chapter & verse with its spy melodrama. This week in a nine-page, 3,000-word report, released after three weeks of rigidly secret investigation, it: 1) bluntly accused three Canadians and one British subject of giving Government secrets to Russia; 2) unfolded the details of Russian espionage in Canada. In an Allied world already jittery over Russia, the report was not calculated to lull suspicions and fears. Said the report...
...picture stands, it has its lights and moments, especially those in which Co-Producer Burgess Meredith, playing the part of a crazy old soldier, hops & skips around chewing flowers and ogling Paulette (Mrs. Meredith). But most of the comedy dissipates into cloudy, dimly political Gallic melodrama, and the raffish promise of the title is never redeemed...
...chief characters in Ethel Vance's new novel. In two previous novels, Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939) and Reprisal (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942), Author Vance, who under her real name (Grace Zaring Stone) also wrote The Bitter Tea of General Yen, has used her talent for melodrama to best-selling effect. .But Winter Meeting is quite a different kind of book-a brief, sharp study of the way in which lives may be turned upside down in the twinkling...
This handsome record stems largely from never playing safe. Catholic University has always refused to "warm over" recent Broadway hits. It prefers things that come out of its own workshop or off the top shelves of the classics. Last month C.U. took its first shot at American mystery melodrama-with William Gillette's creaky, 46-year-old version of Sherlock Holmes. The production, staged with finesse, was clever enough to make the creaking sounds seem, fairly often, creepy...
...represents no great strain of the imagination to call the new Courtney Burr production a Victorian melodrama, despite the fact that it says quite plainly on the program that its episodes occur in 1945 and in spite, also, of its very un-Victorian lead, Percy Kilbride, who steals the show until he finally falls through the thin surface of "Little Brown Jug's" plot and of his own tedium...