Word: melodramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Samuel Shipman, 53, prolific Broadway playwright; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A cynical melodramatist who said he made $1,500,000 in 1918-22 from East Is West, Friendly Enemies, Lawful Larceny and The Woman in Room 13, he frequently dictated his plays to stenographers working in shifts. In a speedwriting contest with the late Edgar Wallace, he completed The Lady Must Be Found in 38½ hr., but lost to Wallace's Ocean Liner...
...concerned with the doings in a lighthouse on Cape Forlorn, New Zealand. Why the God-fearing keeper (William Desmond) married his lecherous wife (Franc Hale) is something Australian Playwright Frank Harvey does not explain. When her husband goes to the mainland, she betrays him with his assistant (old Melodramatist Walker Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings are entrusted, she promptly switches her affections to him. When the absconder jumps off the lighthouse and kills himself, she steals the money and goes off with a lighthouse inspector...