Word: melodrama
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Ride the Pink Horse. An agreeable melodrama starring Robert Montgomery, who also directs (TIME...
...literary grimaces would be made ridiculous by the least suggestion of mugging by the actors. The producers of Nickleby have permitted Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Stanley Holloway & Co. to tear into their meaty parts with about as much finesse as a pack of jackals. Still, this particular melodrama-which intersperses the quarrels between a vicious uncle and his virtuous nephew with a savage attack on the schools of Dickens' day -scarcely deserves better treatment...
Ride the Pinlc Horse. An agreeable melodrama starring Robert Montgomery, who also directs (TIME...
...sentimental choice. St. John Ervine's Irish melodrama about rape, murder and an unpaid mortgage was the Guild's first hit 28 years ago, pulled the fledgling producers into the black at a time when they were down to their last $19.50. For news of another Ervine play, see THEATER...
Ride the Pink Horse. An agreeable melodrama starring Robert Montgomery, who also directs (TIME...