Word: melodrama
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Traipsing noisily on the heels of M. G. M.'s more pretentious Boom Town (TIME, Aug. 26), Flowing Geld indicates that Hollywood has found the U. S. oil industry an acceptable new background for rehashing lusty old melodrama...
...Music Box Theatre in Hollywood. Even its rehearsals are a Hollywood event, with autograph seekers pounding at the doors. This week, after its usual summer pause, Lux Radio Theatre begins a new season with Myrna Loy and William Powell in the aerial version of Manhattan Melodrama...
...week. He follows those instructions almost to the letter, describes his technique as being of the "Aw-nuts rather than the Gee-whiz school of sportswriting." In an excited baritone, he calls a bum a bum, takes frequent pot shots at athletic bigwigs, squeezes the last drop of melodrama out of horse racing, ball games, fights, wrestling bouts. His only concessions to the carriage trade are seasonal references to tennis, polo and college track meets. Enormously popular with sports addicts, he has been a big help in boosting the sale of Phillies, claimed to be over half a billion cigars...
...Best melodrama: the gripping, British-born Ladies in Retirement...
...turns from school teaching to guerilla warfare to get to the top of the world in the quickest time possible. With a woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction that knows how to use a herd...