Word: melodrama
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...Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the U. S. Cried he in a full tenor: "Heh, heh, me proud beauty! Now I have you in muh powah!" Complete with cutaway, half-inch diamond and curling black mustache, he was impersonating Villain Richard Murgatroyd in a modern burlesque of oldtime melodrama called Gold in the Hills, or the Dead Sister's Secret. The audience approved his performance with hearty hisses. The production was the first by a semiprofessional stock company, The Stagers, which he organized and manages. A onetime instructor in English and Latin at Cambridge's Browne & Nichols School...
...Whirlpool," now at the Hollis Street Theatre, can be classified as a rather weak melodrama whose salvation lies only in convincing and intelligent acting on the part of the two young stars, Doris Dalton, and Shirling Oliver...
...production is cleverly presented and well executed, but even these virtues are not sufficient to redeem its faults of construction. Melodrama hath its merits; but a melange of Hamilton Banks and chiropractors never...
...Helen Hayes has to struggle a little with her role as Lien Wha but she manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings. He gives out a few aphorisms left over from his performances as Charlie Chan and wears his hair in a braid so long that...
...author of the plot has taken the idea of "Thirteen Women," which crime club addicts remember as the grisly melodrama of Frauenzimmer from a sorority who were all condemned to die mysteriously one after the other. This ingenious device is applied to five gentlemen traveling in Morocco, who impolitely resist the demands of an old beggar for baksheesh, and are therefore cursed with a fate which shall overtake them in order before the next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death...