Word: melodrama
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Promptness is nowhere more necessary than in the printing of examination papers, when the Quincy street head-quarters are converted into a well guarded fortress and the printers art is colored by a tinge of G-man melodrama...
...Give My Life" is pure melodrama at the end of which there should not be a dry eye in the audience. Tom Brown and Francis Drake are two love-birds who work in a gangsters' nigh-club. Comes a reform governor who cracks down on the underworld, and in self-defense the gangster suddenly reveals that Tom is his son, and that Tom's mother, believing him dead, is now the wife of the governor. Father and son square off, and Tom shoots down the dirty dog. Tom allows himself to be led to the gallows, refusing to tell...
John Gielgud, a sensitive and intelligent Englishman of 32 with a nose the size of a hockey puck, was seen in the U. S. last spring as the hero of a not very exciting British film melodrama called Secret Agent. Long before that, however, London had grown accustomed to acclaiming his Hamlets. He has appeared in four separate productions between 1929 and 1936. Many who witnessed the cast of his nighted colour in Manhattan last week had no difficulty in understanding Gielgud's popularity in the role. The size of Actor Gielgud's features, ludicrous when magnified...
KING COLE-W. R. Burnett-Harper ($2.50). Fast-moving melodrama revolving around six pre-election days in an Ohio State campaign, with a central character a liberal Governor who turns into a demagog and Red-baiter to keep his post...
...President's picture on the cover, an article inside explaining the story's origin. A loud editorial coup, The President's Mystery Story was snapped up by Holly wood, which has made from it an adaptation which reeks of New Deal propaganda and good melodrama...