Word: melodrama
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...sing-song, along the same line as those held by the German department, is planned for the near future, as well as the presentation of a melodrama or other long play. This production will be undertaken for the sole purpose of giving enjoyment to those taking part...
...followed by a detective. When circumstantial evidence of misconduct fails to separate the young couple, Victoria frenziedly locks Anne in a secret vault behind the funeral urns of a pair of Van Bret ancestors. Professor George Pierce Baker taught Playwright McFadden the dramatic tricks with which to make such melodrama, ludicrous in bald outline, almost credible. Audiences appear to enjoy Double Door more than anything they have seen so far this season an approval which is nevertheless faint praise...
Usually the club produces two plays a year, one in the fall and one in the spring. This fall, it has already been decided to present two plays, and no plans have yet been made for the spring. The first presentation will be an old-time melodrama entitled "The Fireman," and will be presented Friday and Saturday, November 24 and 25, the week-end of the Yale game. This play was written by Samuel Johnson, an actor, and was first produced in Boston...
...stolen a diamond necklace. Oliver attempts to return it and fails. Murder, pursuit by an army plane over the channel, a suicide, an other death perjury and an orthodox Hollywood ending with an unusually humorous last line by Mrs. Ropkins; it is wholesome unadulterated melodrama...
Thus begins Earl Carroll's current show, a melange of melody and melodrama. Thriller Author Rufus King (Murder by the Clock, Somewhere in This House) has not concocted a murder mystery which would stand on its own scarey merits. Producer Carroll has not provided quite so lavish a treat for playgoing eyes and ears as in past years. But the combined Carroll-King offering does entertain...