Word: melodrama
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Three Harvard students will take part in "Gold in the Hills", a nineteenth century melodrama, to be presented by the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club tonight, at 8.30 o'clock in Brattle Hall for the benefit of the Cambridge Tuberculosis Health Association...
Convenient for occupational melodrama, with which the cinema is trying to replace last year's gangster cycle, was the career of Lawyer William J. Fallen. Lawyer Fallen ably defended innumerable criminals, then defended himself when he was accused of bribing a juror. He was noted also as a libertine and toper. He was the hero of a gaudy biography by Gene Fowler, The Great Mouthpiece (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931). First cinema based on the career of Lawyer Fallen two years ago was For the Defense, with William Powell. Elmer Rice's play, Counsellor-at-Law, had elements...
...pleased with the adaptation of her play. Said she: "My admiration for Greta Garbo is unbounded. ... I see before me even now her tired, tragic face in the opening scenes and her extraordinary vivacity of expression and action as the happy Grusinskaya." It is a quick, sharp melodrama far superior to imitations of it already produced (Transatlantic, Union Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest virtue, as it should be, is its acting. Garbo is less numb than usual and gives her best performance. John Barrymore makes the Baron a scapegrace...
...matches. Disclosure No. 1, coming with the arrest of three of Kreuger's associates, was that the "irregularities" were not born of falling markets and reverses but began in 1925. Disclosure No. 2 showed Kreuger in a scene that might have been taken from a common crook melodrama...
This is a picture that has slipped by many people unseen because its title suggests gangland melodrama. In reality, it is one of the most sensitively conceived and perfectly directed films of the year...