Word: melodrama
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...product is harmful and even fatal? After all, not just his own livelihood is at stake, but that of his associates, his employees, the town itself. Before Julian Prescott (well played by Howard Lindsay) comes to a decision, there is much airing of opinions and a fair amount of melodrama...
Detective Story. Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective squad room still swirls with melodrama under William Wyler's direction (TIME...
Detective Story. Playwright Sidney Kingsley's account of a day in a Manhattan detective squad room still swirls with melodrama under William Wyler's direction (TIME...
...second and third acts the comedy element is completely submerged in melodrama, apparently to the delight of the feminine members of the audiences. It seems as if the playwright is not quite sure of what she wants to accomplish. The spoofing of polygamy in the first act is somehow incongruous with her moral examination of the effects of polygamy in the parties involved. What results is soap opera transferred to the stage...
Despite its last-minute slide into doubtful melodrama, The Works of Love is a moving novel. Novelist Morris has a fine gift for evoking the monotony of village streets at the turn of the century, the mustiness of shabby hotels, the pathos of a man who cannot communicate with other men. When he goes astray, it is usually because he tries too hard to follow the narrow path of Sherwood Anderson's imagination. A writer as good as Wright Morris doesn't need to imitate anyone...