Word: melodrama
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Expert In Hammond, Ind., presenting a melodrama from radio station WAE, Roland G. Palmer, sound expert, made noises like galloping horses, howling wind, pattering rain. When the script called for a pistol shot, Sound Man Palmer picked up a pistol, shot off two of his fingers...
...career in favor of matrimony and three children. No brilliant achievement for a professional novelist, it is probably the best fiction ever perpetrated by a cinemactress. The picture, Devil's Lottery, less sensational than The Yellow Ticket in which she last performed, is a glib and interesting melodrama in which Miss Landi performs far better than any other female novelist in the U.S. would have been able...
Ladies of the Jury (RKO) takes a situation which cinema generally treats as melodrama, and makes it into a comedy which is not quite a farce. The scene is a courtroom but the principal character is not the actress (Jill Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court...
...Round-Up, "Hoover'll never serve another term," snarls the villain of this piece, referring not to the 31st President of the U. S. but to one "Slim" Hoover, the brave Arizona sheriff of a Wild Western melodrama, vintage 1907. Revived last week, The Round-Up could at least be sure that it was the noisiest play on Broadway. Its cast includes seven broncos. A rescue party of U. S. soldiers finally join in a pitched gun-battle between poisonous redskins and a pair of frontiersmen. At the conclusion of this affray, one soldier may be seen waving...
...notice of the Niles abduction wa taken by the world-at-large. It would scarcely have attracted the little national attention it did had not a fabulous melodrama unfolded the night before in central New Jersey...