Word: melodrama
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...Heard." Schoenberg lived in the U.S. 18 years, eight of them as a member (1936-44) of U.C.L.A.'s music faculty. Here & there, pianists occasionally programmed Schoenberg music, vocalists sang his songs, orchestras and chamber groups performed his longer works, e.g., the symphonic poem Pelleas and Melisande, the melodrama Pierrot Lunaire and Gurre-Lieder, songs for voice and chamber orchestra. To all but his most devoted fans, the music still sounded harsh. But Schoenberg never once let up in his battle for his twelve-tone system...
Kind Lady (MGM) presents Broadway's Maurice (Hamlet, Man and Superman) Evans in a new cinemadaptation of an old Broadway melodrama. Always at home in a revival, Actor Evans gives a performance as technically polished as the movie's production, and Co-Star Ethel Barrymore keeps right up with him. But the thriller's chills are slow in coming, only moderately chilling when they arrive...
Half Angel (20th Century-Fox) tries to play schizophrenia for belly laughs and proves that psychiatry can be mangled as witlessly in a comedy as in melodrama. Its heroine (Loretta Young) is a primly correct girl whose subconscious, taking possession while she sleeps, turns her into a somnambulant femme fatale with a yen for a stuffy lawyer (Joseph Gotten...
...Columbia) is a remake of the classic German melodrama, originally filmed by Fritz Lang in 1931, which helped bring Director Lang and Actor Peter Lorre to Hollywood. Though the old story of a psychopathic murderer of children has been shifted to a U.S. city in 1951 and altered in some other details-almost always for the worse-the new picture's close imitation of the German version's camera setups and sequence of shots suggests that Director Joseph Losey must have worn out a print of the original in the process of rehearsing himself...
...from the latest nonfiction account of the mystery. In Rudolph: The Tragedy of Mayerling (TIME, Jan. 17, 1949), Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, whose uncle later married Rudolph's widow, reconstructs the affair as the climax of a psychopathic melodrama, motivated by Rudolph's unhealthy fascination for sex and death. According to Author Lonyay's version, the bored, philandering Rudolph, morbidly intrigued with the idea of double suicide, talks mistress Marie Vetsera (his third choice for the role) into the act, then takes ten hours to shoot himself after finishing...