Word: melodramas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rest of the contents are of good average quality--for candidates. One story, "The End of the Quest," by S. Bowles, Jr., is the kind of tale for which the Advocate was long famous, direct, virile, and with an ending. The tendency towards melodrama one forgives for the sake of the actual interest. Two of the others belong also to well-recognized types: "Jack's Affair with his Conscience" recalling a familiar episode in Mr. Flandreau's book, and "A Symphony in D-Minor" being a variation on the familiar theme of Mr. Owen Wister's "Philosophy 4." The fantastic...
...merely mother and son are before us, the author fares well, both in character-drawing and in his ability to sustain the scenes; but in the son's brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort, can readily be shattered without recourse to the more than bromidic--the bromidiac -- near-brilliant pink-shirt-stud. The other story in this number, "The Woman Who Wasn't," is no more nor less than it pretends...
...reformed "sport" who becomes a clergyman, and ultimately, through fear of his inability to resist the attractions of the world, gives up everything, even love, to enter a religious order, is not by any means easy to handle, and the avoidance of sentimentality on the one hand and melodrama on the other deserves the highest praise. The dialogue, also, is handled with admirable directness and naturalness, and the characterization of the principal figures is excellent. Something of the same admirable restraint appears in R. J. Walsh's "Little Wanderers," which treats a difficult situation with delicacy and good taste...
...accompanying dance, was extraordinary without being mortifying. Osborne found it as difficult to stay in his part as in his costume, but the song was one of the hits of the show. B. Moore '08 as the anarchist, marred what was otherwise a clever burlesque of the villain of melodrama by continual overemphasis. He is potentially the best actor in the cast, but fails to "arrive" on account of such faults as a noisy and meaningless spatting of his hands and a reluctance to let go of his consonants. F. M. Gunther '07 proved himself worthy of the better acting...
Atlantic--"Longfellow, 1807-1907," by T. B. Aldrich h.'96; "The Melodrama," by H. J. Smith p.'04; "Modern Spanish Fiction," by W. W. Comfort...