Word: melodrama
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Detective Story is much the same brand of documentary melodrama as Kingsley's Dead End and Men in White. Wherever it can, the play lets truth walk side by side with good theater, but in a pinch it is always theater that has right of way. Among other things, Detective Story pleads that mercy should season justice. But too often it lets hokum season realism, and raises salient questions only to provide inconclusive answers...
...married Actress Madge Evans in 1939, set out to write plays while still at Cornell. He spent three years, much of it living with interns, on his first play, Men in White ("That was a longie"). It won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize. Then, in the same blend of melodrama and social conscience, came Dead End (1935), Ten Million Ghosts (1936), The World We Make...
...Accused. Loretta Young as the culprit in a cat & mouse melodrama, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...
...Accused. Loretta Young as the culprit in a cat & mouse melodrama, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...
...plays are A.A. Milne's "The Man in the Bowler Hat," an old-fashioned melodrama, which offers everything from a heroine in a strapless gown to a villain, and Essex Dane's "Tuberoses." which tells a tragic episode concerning three sisters...