Melodrama : plots that thrilled (1954)

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GRECIAN DRAMATISTS 91 Youth (Drury Lane, 1881) or, The Railroad To Ruin. Though this had a prosperous run at Drury Lane in 1869, it was not until ten years later that its style became the model for spectacular melodrama, naval, military, sporting or just catastrophic. Meritt adopted it at the Duke's in 1879 as the design o£New Babylon, described by D. L. Murray as the perfect melodrama, " It has every character, every situation, every sensation ". Its pictures of real