Word: melodrama
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...Leslie Carter who swung to fame in The Heart of Maryland, a Civil War spy melodrama, in which the heroine, Maryland, clutches the tongue of the belfry bell to silence the news that her prisoner-lover has escaped. In the play, her first success, Mrs. Carter let down her bright red hair and swung 229 times in Manhattan in 1895, 96 times in London in 1898. In Mrs. Carter's later plays, David Belasco always arranged a scene in which she could undo her hair. Hence the favorite remark of the 1890's: "Let's go to the new Belasco...
...costumed melodrama of Mississippi riverboat life with Rogers as a steamboat captain, Steamboat Round the Bend in patter and pattern supplies historians with little new light on the Rogers saga. However, in addition to assuring cinemaddicts that they may still enjoy the dead actor as much as they ever did while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog...
...INQUISITOR - Hugh Walpole- Doubleday, Doran ($3). Readable but pretentious melodrama of the Furze brothers, Stephen and Michael, who struggled in the shadow of the Cathedral that Author Walpole publicized in Harmer John...
...indication of what the winter of 1935-36 will hold for cinemaddicts, China Seas, a first rate melodrama, lively, funny, and convincing, is highly reassuring. Its popularity at its premiere last week seemed to presage box-office records and a banner year, as usual, for the most ingratiating member of its cast, Jean Harlow...
...week found little romance in the memoirs of onetime Superintendent of Scotland Yard George W. Cornish. To professional sleuths crime detection is work like any other, hard, slow, tedious. Cornish of Scotland Yard is enlightening for its revelation of day-to-day police routine, its honest avoidance of spurious melodrama...