Word: melodrama
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...Dolores was duped into a bogus marriage with an Egyptian magician, known in the music halls as Osiris, who deserted her. Her other husbands were Capt. Harry Sadler and George Livermore, both of whom had to divorce her. After the suicide of Artist Atkinson she appeared briefly in a melodrama based on her own career, and wrote her autobiography. Excerpt...
...years standing, let me enter my protest against the protesters. When the Catholic league condemns a picture such as Little Man, What Now? because the heroine unhappily conceives her child before she is fully ready for marriage, although the picture is a splendid symbol of faith: and condemns Manhattan Melodrama because a criminal is not pictured as being rotten all the way to the core, then it has become more than censorship. It is stupidity...
...Clark Gable as Blackie Gallagher in MGM's Manhattan Melodrama (TIME, May 14) many a cinemaddict one night last week went to the Biograph Theatre on Chicago's North Side. One of them was a slight, dark-haired, harmless-looking little man in shirtsleeves, wearing a white hat and gold-rimmed spectacles. As he walked up to the box office, a man sitting in a parked car at the curb gave a start. Chief Investigator Melvin Purvis of the Department of Justice in Chicago had, for the first time in a four-month manhunt, clapped eyes on Desperado...
...WOMAN AND THE SEA?Concha Espina?Rae D. Henkle ($2.50). Old-fashioned psychological melodrama by a Spanish woman novelist well thought of in her native country...
...Immoral and indecent" were The Life of Vergie Winters, Side Streets, Dr. Monica, Road to Ruin, Little Man, What Now?, Born to Be Bad, Girls for Sale, Manhattan Melodrama, Wharf Angel, Merry Wives of Reno, Notorious but Nice, Finishing School, Sisters Under the Skin, Sadie McKee, Fog Over Frisco...