Word: melodrama
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...pictures, Journal of a Crime indicates that stolen property is often difficult to sell. Ever since Warner Brothers took Ruth Chatterton from Paramount in 1931, they have found her a serious problem. A solemn, intelligent actress with searching eyes and plaintive voice, she lacks the qualifications for the rapidfire melodrama or the garish musicomedy which are now Warner specialties. Pictures like Journal of a Crime suit Ruth Chatterton better than they suit the tastes of audiences...
...plain reader. "The Red Front," by Louis Aragon, in the translation of e. e. cummings, is less eccentric than the selections from cummings' own "Eimi." T. S. Eliot is represented by the least intelligible of his poems, the first part of "Sweeny Agonistes: Fragment of an Aristophanic Melodrama...
...Wonder (Al Jolson), where a lovely patroness (Kay Francis) bored with her husband, a depraved dancer (Ricardo Cortez) and his svelte partner (Dolores Del Rio), an impoverished financier and the eccentric but high-spirited host involve themselves in the emotional entanglements customarily reserved for one room melodrama...
...days of bloodshed, that the evidence against them was slight. But time was passing. At the end of three hours the policemen turned the clock back, sent out for coffee with whipped cream. Soon up rushed the State's Attorney, waving reprieves like the warden in a melodrama. "Thank God, I am not too late!" he gasped. The smiling police got another...
FALLING STAR-Vicki Baum-Double-day, Doran ($2). This translation of Hollywood into terms of romance should please many a reader, including even Hollywoodland sprites. German Authoress Baum has enough gusto to invest even tinselly happenings with glamour, though her sugary Teutonic melodrama should be taken with a heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak...