Word: melodrama
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...Never-versatile, Vienna-born Elisabeth Bergner has been searching for a new play to appear in on Broadway. The Two Mrs. Carrolls suggests that the search had become pretty desperate. From 8:40 to 10 it is just dull; from 10 o'clock on it is pretty fair melodrama...
...will,' and if not everything can be caught in this way, what is so caught cannot be caught in any other way. Rigor will not do. Forster teases his medium and plays with his genre. He scorns the fetish of 'adequate motivation,' delights in surprise and melodrama and has a kind of addiction to sudden death." He has, says Trilling, "a whim of iron." And "to accept Forster we have to know that . . . improbability is the guide to life...
...Benton's lurid anti-Axis paintings (TIME, April 6, 1942), Kootz declares: "[They] proved embarrassing because the imagery was from stock molds and the sentiment descended to cheap melodrama...
...melodrama with a message, Tomorrow the World provokes thought while providing thrills. And its skillful acting -particularly by radio's astonishing twelve-year-old Skippy (George Vincent) Homeier as Emil - makes it passingly plausi ble. But it is ultimately unsatisfying -too unevenly written, too sensationally worked out. With the theater's need for hurry, it makes Emil's rehabilitation seem more a race against time than a question of time...
...Colonel was to haunt Harold Ickes like the cloaked villain in a melodrama, sometimes under the Ickesian aliases of "McComic" or "Bilious Bertie, the bingy bully...