Word: melodramas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullet in his chest and compels an unwilling surgeon to take it out by first kidnapping the surgeon's little boy. Act I is mostly comedy, which consists of stating a few jokes and then elaborately developing them, like themes in music. Acts II and III are melodrama-absurd, but fairly exciting...
...Beebe (Elizabeth Patterson) persuades him to give up the trade of horse racing, he takes up the hardly more stable trade of singing in night clubs. Sing You Sinners is thus no preachment for the typically American virtues, but it is tolerable comedy, jigging playfully from farce to melodrama like a kite with no tail...
Gateway (Twentieth Century-Fox). Grand Hotel melodrama against an Ellis Island background, with Don Ameche, Arleen Whelan, Gregory Ratoff, Binnie Barnes and Gilbert Roland...
Literary observers, about equally divided between the alarmed and the content, now acknowledge that the left-wing literary movement during the 30s has gained some able recruits. But even sympathetic observers have been disturbed by the number of left-wing novels which appear, still lumpy with undigested slogans, melodrama, still relying on red flags and broken heads instead of good writing...
This 741-page historical melodrama about "a modern Monte Cristo" is an unusual tale. Most extraordinary thing about it is its echoes of Christina Stead's month-and-a-half-old House of All Nations (TIME, June 13). Both novels run to about the same length, both have the same satirical, tight-nerved, epigrammatic slant on their backgrounds of international high finance, war and revolution. The World Is Mine, with a more extravagant range, livelier plot, less diffuseness, is better than Author Stead's brilliant book...