Word: melodrama
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...proponent of melodrama in the local room, City Editor Shaw (a graduate summa cum laude of Oberlin, and son of the Plain Dealer's longtime chief editorial writer Archer Shaw) gags when he hears about The Front Page brand of city editor. He made his reputation as a City Hall reporter who had a great knack for making interesting sense of municipal affairs...
...Berg wound up his study satisfied that he knew what had caused relapses in his patients. Said he: "The cumulative effect of a diet of corrupting melodrama could not fail to product an 'anxiety state.' Even those patients who were cautioned of the baleful effects of listening to these serials found it harder to resist. . . . The hairline that divides the normal from the neurotic . . . can disappear from such influence as the unwitting sadism of suppurating serials...
...fallacious to assume that all the adherents of the "well-made" school of playwriting indulge in melodrama to the exclusion of any notion of mood, building up incident and situation, at the expense of character. Miss Hellman does write contrived melodramas: "The Little Foxes," for instance, is so admirably constructed, so logical in development, so clever in its thematic manipulation, that it seems, at times, too pat. But emotion is not lacking in it, or in "Watch on the Rhine" which builds to a tremendous climax of sentiment. Other recent melodramas, such as "Angel Street" and "Ladies In Retirement...
...Korda; United Artists) is the late Carole Lombard's last picture. Like Son of the Sheik (Rudolph Valentino), Steamboat 'Round the Bend (Will Rogers) and Saratoga (Jean Harlow), it was posthumously released. Fortunately for all concerned, To Be is a very funny comedy, salted to taste with melodrama and satire...
...Paris Calling," another anti-Nazi melodrama, presents a half-hour of magnificently directed bombing scenes, before degenerating to the usual mad succession of miracles and cliches. Elizabeth Bergner and Randolph Scott, both rather, hard to look at, provide the clinches...