Word: melodrama
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...night after three young prisoners had escaped from the Tombs, up a secret dumb-waiter shaft, down a rope of prison bedsheets bound with bedspring wire, in the Tombs' first important jailbreak since 1926. Hoist by this factitious timeliness, Crucible turned out to be a hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware of the philanthropist's real objectives: 1) to get his three gunmen out of the Tombs, 2) to woo the girl, 3) to frame...
...marries a girl of his own class while Mary is in prison. She gets out in time to save his life again, this time by shooting her old friend Leo. A jury finds her guilty of murder and Lawyer Mannering has to intercede to save her life. A familiar melodrama done in an expensive and sometimes ingenious manner, Midnight Mary is distinguished by the work of Interior Decorator Hobe Erwin and by another competent performance by Franchot Tone. When Franchot Tone emigrated from the Manhattan stage last autumn, his work in plays like Green Grow the Lilacs, The House...
...Dashiell Hammett had written Grand Hotel, the result might have been something like Sleepers East. Author Nebel cannot command Hammett's sulphurous and suspense-laden style, but he has fitted together a first-rate melodrama, whose plot is more cunningly joined than Grand Hotel's, its suspense and climax better managed. Sleepers East is headed for a brisk trip, with Hollywood one of its way-stations...
...sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk, who shoots the reporter who, when he gets out of the hospital, marries Julie. Far from the tenor of the book by Max Miller, from which it was adapted by Wells Root, I Cover the Waterfront is a sullen atmospheric melodrama, interesting except in banal sequences which show the reporter abusing his managing editor...
Following the custom inaugurated by Eliot House this spring, Leverett House will present its first play in the House Dining Hall Monday night at 8.30 o'clock. The play, "Ten Nights in a Barroom," is a typical temperence melodrama of the bygone days and involves much bloodshed and frequent Carrie Nation tactics in its denunciation of drink and the terrors that it brings to the home. All members of the University are invited, and any lady accompanied by an escort will be admitted...