Word: melodrama
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Safe in Hell (First National) is routine death-before-dishonor melodrama except that in most such cases it is considered against the rules for either death or dishonor, no matter how imminent they may be, actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband...
...accordance with its custom of annually presenting a play the Delta Upsilon Fraternity is working on the production of a burlesque melodrama in two acts by J. Frank Davis entitled "Gold in the Hills, or the Dead Sister's Secret." This play is set in a farmhouse interior of about 1890 and typifies the provincial American drama of that period. It will be directed by F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, Assistant Professor in Public Speaking. Three performances have been planned for the first week in February, two at the fraternity house on Harvard Street and one at Wellesly College...
...calm, his air of graceful self-sufficiency. Colman's qualifications, together with Estelle Taylor's expert impersonation of a lush and crafty siren, comprise the chief virtues of The Unholy Garden. The story is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who were unsure whether they were writing comedy or melodrama and did neither vigorously...
This grim but lively melodrama, even more than her earlier vehicles (Always Goodby, Wicked) shows the potentialities of Elissa Landi as an emotional actress. A stage success of 17 years ago, the picture has two other noteworthy performances?by Laurence Olivier, a mild spoken English actor with unusually good camera presence, and Lionel Barrymore. Barrymore, the best leerer in his family, achieves facial contortions of unparalleled eloquence; he has added a scratchy guffaw to his paraphernalia of lechery. Good shot: the scene in a cabaret in which a song sung by the performers reminds Barrymore where he first saw Elissa...
This pleasantly written romantic melodrama tells the story of the rise (but not the inevitable fall) of Esteban Perez, hard-riding soldado of a Central American republic which Author La Farge calls "Alturas...