Melodrama : plots that thrilled (1954)

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Record Details:

Title:
Melodrama : plots that thrilled
Date:
1954
Publisher:
New York : The MacMillan Company
Volume:
Melodrama : plots that thrilled
Leaf #:
000154
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 16, 2024
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114 MELODRAMA friendship with Doris Keane. Both had had a little success on the stage and many disappointments. Together they planned Romance to present her as a prima donna of the 1860s, mistress of a wealthy banker who is leader of fashion in New York. At his house she meets the young rector of St. Giles's ; they wish to marry until she blurts out the truth about herself and rushes away. He comes to struggle with her for her soul, loses his head and struggles for her body until she begs, " Please let me be good " (which became one of London's catch-phrases). The play opened at Maxine Elliot's Theatre, New York, in 191 3. In the autumn of 19 15 Doris Keane brought it to London. Zeppelin raids began soon after, and it might have been withdrawn but was transferred instead to the Lyric in Shaftesbury Avenue. There it broke all London records for melodrama and for all plays other than farces up to that date, with a run of over 1,000 performances. " Cabotinage ", said a critic who had seen all stage clergymen. Tawdry that belated specimen of sex-and-salvation undoubtedly was. But no one who saw it in the London of doused lighting is ever likely to forget it. Scene by scene it stays bright in memories which have lost sight of some hundreds of other plays.