Word: melodrama
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...other people, subscribes to the opinion of his Majesty. The secret of that fasciculation was not merely in the relaxation he provided from mental effort; it sprang also from his tremendous virility. Those who saw "On The Spot," his play about Chicago gangsters, can appreciate the effervescing mixture of melodrama and force at which he was so adopt...
...christening of the heir to the throne, a ceremony for which the Prime Minister tries to supply the proper air of spontaneous festivity by hiring all the professional mourners in the city to cheer as the King goes by. At this point, the picture suddenly descends to sorry melodrama. The jolly little king is murdered by his soldiers and Miss Negri, called upon to admit that her son is illegitimate, barely escapes with her life...
...also fitted in happily with the producers' campaign to cut costs. "Frankenstein", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "Murders in the Rue Morgue," the latter opening at the R.K.O. Keith today, constitute a trio of carefully contrived hair-raisers. A survey of other current titles reveals additional evidence that melodrama and the effects of the spoken word are being capitalized...
...March 10 and 11 the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present its annual play, in the theatre at the Club House. The play is a burlesque nineteenth century melodrama called "Gold in the Hills or the Dead Sister's Secret," and was written by J. F. Davis. There will probably be some other performance of this play in the next week if the demand for tickets is sufficient, but the performance at Wellesley, where one show is usually given, will not be staged this year...
...Woman from Monte Carlo (Warner), contrived as a vehicle for the U. S. debut of German Lil Dagover, is a jerky little melodrama of continental intrigue and the War. A lady married to a captain in the French navy finds herself aboard her husband's ship and in a cabin which belongs to one of his subordinates. Before her husband discovers her predicament, the ship is torpedoed and lost with all hands, except those essential to the foolish sequences with which the picture ends. In these, the lady's husband is court-martialed. His wife, by confessing her evening...