Word: melodrama
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Directed by Anatole Litvak with a sort of unflagging belief in third-rate melodrama, Mayerling is helped toward verisimilitude by the accuracy of its baroque Viennese trimmings, and by the excellent representational music of Arthur Honegger. More serious cinemagoers, however, may wish that the story had come a little closer to grips with human fact, if only by cribbing the moral that Playwright Maxwell Anderson set to the tale in his Masque of Kings last winter: that to rule brutalizes. The Lower Depths (Albatros). Maxim Gorki, literary darling of the Russian masses both before and after the revolution, wrote...
Ronald Colman, who can pick his self-assured way through the mazes of melodrama in fancy dress as no one else in Hollywood, doubles as Rudolf, uncrowned King of Strelsau, and his English cousin Rassendyll. Rudolf and Rassendyll, just to help out the plot, are dead ringers for each other. To foil a treasonous conspiracy led by Black Michael (Raymond Massey), Rassendyll impersonates his cousin, lets himself be crowned. He wishes more than ever that he hadn't when he meets Rudolf's fiancee, Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll). She falls in love with him quite legally...
...himself, his writing, until July 1930, was confined to medical subjects (Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines); he has practiced in South Wales, has been down more than 500 coal mines. His first novel (Hatter's Castle; TIME, July 20. 1931), a gloomy lengthy melodrama, was a surprise best seller. In neither of his professions has Dr. Cronin paid much attention to the rules. To the lay reader the "cut-shop" (medical jargon ) in The Citadel may seem tedious and overdone: but to many The Citadel will appeal as a spunky onslaught on an unco...
Every week since January 1936 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. has been advertising Palmolive shaving creams with a Wednesday night coast-to-coast radio melodrama called "Gang-busters." Produced by smart young Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which claims 20,000,000 listeners for the program, "Gangbusters" dramatizes actual criminal careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger...
...Distinctly not for the squeamish." Lena, by a Prix Goncourt winner (Captain Conan), is a War romance on the order of A Farewell to Arms, plus the sinister violence of plot inseparable from Balkan settings. Readers who stubbornly refuse to humor Balkan settings may call it merely macabre sex melodrama skilfully made up to pass as an indictment...