Word: melodrama
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...emerge in Europe since the War. The illness of Queen Marie happened to precede the expulsion of slack-chinned former Prince Nicholas from the royal family and from Rumania. Bucharest gossips, who enjoy exercising the most heated imaginations in the world, were thus encouraged to circulate the following melodrama...
Other Great Lakes Exposition attractions are Winterland, a big skating rink with a troupe of performers headed by Maribel Yerxa Vinson; performances of The Drunkard, the hiss-the-villain melodrama which had a long run in Manhattan in 1934; Tony Sarg's marionettes. The management declared flatly that this year there would be no "peep shows" or "gyp joints." Last week the first seven days' attendance stood...
...preachment against war, They Gave Him A Gun would be more persuasive if it did not permit the impression that experience in the trenches may have improved Fred about as much as it weakened Jimmy. As melodrama, it would be more effective if Director W. S. Van Dyke had avoided more of the cliches that tend to attach themselves to all pictures involving 1) soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals...
...spite of such improbabilities as hoodlums using toy automobiles to rehearse a holdup, Behind the Headlines is an unusually exciting program melodrama. To Lee Tracy addicts it marks one more, perhaps a permanent "comeback" of their favorite, who is now alleged to have forsworn the haywire ways which brought him into disrepute with Hollywood producers. Diana Gibson looks like an outdoor version of Marion Nixon and acts with a promising swing. Best shots: Tracy defeating his hecklers by getting into the burning dance hall through the skylight; the Potter gang capturing the gold shipment by overcoming the staff...
Neither detective story nor melodrama, Night Must Fall is concerned not with how Olivia arranges Danny's undoing but how he nearly arranges hers. Instead of sending her scuttling to the police, Olivia's growing awareness that Danny has killed one woman and is planning to kill another gives him a fascination for her which, when a curious police inspector is examining the hatbox, makes her remove it before he gets a chance to look inside. Horrified at her reactions, more and more drawn to Danny, Olivia twice tries to run away but comes back both times...