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Ladies in Retirement. A good, hard hitting English melodrama, with Flora Robson making a name for herself as a murderess (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Bets on Broadway | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Margin for Error. Clare Boothe's lively anti-Nazi melodrama, spiced with satirical wisecracks (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Bets on Broadway | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Harry Lauder, 69, was back in the U. S. But not in person, on film. Said he: "A wee bit o' celluloid crosses the ocean just as fast and at ha' the price." On celluloid, Sir Harry in his first talking picture, a weak-kneed melodrama, played the trouping grandfather of a motherless baby. Grandfather spends most of his time and money keeping the child away from its no-good father. Minus the bagpipers, Sir Harry Lauder stamped around with his crooked stick, sang The End o' the Road, We A' Go Hame the Same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...when a masterful director like Alfred Hitchcock and actors as capable as Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine do their best to make a tencent novelette plot credible, they produce an unwonted effect--that of serving cold stew on a golden platter. Hollywood's skillful technique has given a backneyed melodrama a chance to excite once again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/8/1940 | See Source »

...Titanic, is one long frenzy of symbolic possibilities. No Melville but murderously in earnest, Prechtl makes a sort of Tamburlaine of John Jacob Astor, constructs a magnificent tear-jerker about the aged Isidore Straus. To these creatures of fact he adds tons of Sunday-Supplement material (melodrama, pseudoscience, a malign diamond), a few moments of near-grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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