Word: melodrama
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...climaxed by the villain's death, this time in a theatre. It even includes two other familiar episodes culled from the Dillinger saga, the siege in a roadhouse and plastic surgery for purposes of disguise. These details. however, for cinemaddicts who find the current school of underworld melodrama the most exciting furnished by the cinema in the past three years, will merely serve to emphasize the obvious fact that a picture written to a pattern can seem all the more alive, original and exciting if the writing is well done and the pattern sound...
SALUTE TO APHRODITE-Rearden Conner-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Irish melodrama laid in the days of the Fenian conspiracies, revolving around a powerful peasant Don Juan...
...Theatre Guild, producer) is an experiment which demonstrates some of the possibilities and all of the shortcomings of presenting songs and dances on a soapbox. Originally this "satirical revue" was scheduled for the rampant Red Theatre Union, which last year put on Messrs. Peters' & Sklar's Communist melodrama Stevedore (TIME, April 20, 1934). In that locale, Parade's sour skits and migraine melodies might have had some relevancy. At the Theatre Guild, which has a tradition for art rather than garment-loft politics, Parade gives its spectators no pleasure, no precept, but plenty of punishment. Its successive...
...Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's melodrama, wherein Leslie Howard arranges to have himself shot by a fugitive gangster...
...Gautier (Yvonne Printemps) and her idealistic young lover, Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks the scene in which Armand's father persuades Marguerite to return to Paris, and the final reconciliation in which Armand finds her dying of consumption. The taint of melodrama appears only when, during the famous gambling scone, Armand flings his winnings in the lady's face and stalks from the room. The supporting cast is capable, and the costumes maintain themselves convincingly in the early 19th century tradition...