Word: villain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last Trail (Thomas Mix). It is a relief, now and then, to sit back and consume a westerner a picture where the hero streaks across the horizon on his able, horse, waves his lasso, humiliates the suave villain, rescues a milk-fed maiden. The plot is worthless; Zane Grey wrote it. The action is great; Cowboy Mix, Horse Tony, Bloodhound Blinkerton, two careening stage coaches...
...outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts the faker's delicious dancer (Jobyna Ralston). Latest Lloyd laughables: a "grinning" stork; laundry on a kite string; amorous tree-climbing; a monkey in a man's shoes; synthetic dishwashing; ringtoss with life-preservers to capture the villain, upend him, paddle him ashore with a broom...
Wayne B. Wheeler, paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League, at once found himself the villain of the story. His statements through the week fluctuated between the rabid and the sensible arguments of the Drys. Said...
...informative. It will probably furnish to younger businessmen the inspiration that its jacket advertises. Even as a relaxative its merit is far above most fiction of the idly amorous type. Also, it is probably authentic. (The country's leading stove works are now in combine.) That Villain Lockhart was founded on fact, however, is doubtful. His tactics are consistently those of the mucker football player who not only gouges eyes and kicks groins when on the field, but also spends every waking moment in poisoning coffee, writing fake telegrams, hiring kidnapers, etc., etc. Had such a character ever existed...
...young country gentleman, Dermot McDermot (Walter Abel) and a neighboring country gentleman's daughter, Connaught O'Brien (Katherine Alexander), both born to the grassy slopes of Ireland, in love with their land, their horses, their people and each other. She is forced to marry a villain who shoots her pet race horse after good old Bart had won the big steeplechase. The race is a childish, ridiculous, clumsy scene, wherein one horse, galloping a mile a minute on a treadmill, was easily outstripped by the gingerly lope of another animal who had only to thread his way across...