What Potterish minds you and I must have, Jane, to have built up such a sensational melodrama out of an ordinary accident.

They changed melodrama into comedy.

Here one was composing a melodrama at the side of another practising on the flute, from which he drew wheezy notes.

But for this fact, one could quite well conceive a fascinating melodrama constructed, like a detective story, with a view to keeping the audience in the dark as long as possible.

Haven't you got a good melodrama, or a funny show?" "I have not," superbly.

Don't imagine melodrama....

It was only a melodrama, but Henry could always invest a melodrama with life, beauty, interest, mystery, by his methods of production.

It was on a night like this that a lady visitor, who long after that event occupied, in entire ignorance of its supernatural character, that large room; and being herself a lady of a picturesque turn, and loving the grander melodrama of Nature, bid her maid leave the shutters open, and watched the splendid effects from her bed, until, the storm being still distant, she fell asleep.

I have always hated a scene, and this performance savored too much of moving picture melodrama to suit me.

The play of the evening was written "expressly for the occasion" by a gentleman who had produced one melodrama at a Bowery theatre, and failed to produce a large number of melodramas at all the theatres in Broadway.

But suddenly he would go back to the tale of his fighting in Lorraine and resume a long and rapid monologue in which little pictures of horror flashed after each other as though his brain were a cinematograph recording some melodrama.

But one frequently sees a melodrama divided into "five acts and eight tableaux," or even more; which practically means that the play is in eight, or nine, or ten acts, but that there will be only the four conventional interacts in the course of the evening.

If I were ever to write a melodrama, Margaret, I could wish for no more thorough-paced villain than a large fortune."