Word: villain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile from Tirana. Albanian capital, comes news of the "villain" of this latest Balkan drama. Ahmed Zogu, inveterate rival of Bishop Noli, is now in full control of the government. The constituent assembly has declared Albania a republic, with a constitution modeled after that of the United States, and has named Zogu as president for a term of seven years...
...Bully. One of those throaty melodramas in which the ingenue is virtuous and the villain a fiend, came in with Christmas and will probably go out with the Old Year. Unwittingly, the virtuous child implicates herself in her master's villainies. Pearls-a great many pearls-are stolen. Emmett Corrigan, who should have known better, waded around in the shallows of the leading part. Several of the cast were almost criminally incompetent. The audience tittered...
...middle of a prosaic history of a young wife who spent too much money, is introduced an elaborate Biblical adventure in luxurious color film. David and Bath-Sheba, battles and beards, dancing girls and the annoyance of the Lord thereat are profusely painted in. They illustrate the villain's attempt to justify to the wife her proposed seduction by himself. Very properly the bewildered girl burst into tears and went downstairs to her husband. The picture proves that travel talks on sin are unwise at critically unmoral moments...
...That Admiral Rainier was not an obscure villain. In 1778, as a lieutenant in command of a sloop, he captured a large American privateer after a hard action in which he was severely wounded; soon after he was sent to the East Indies, rose steadily in rank to Admiral, retired, became a Member of Parliament and died leaving one tenth of his large estate to reduce the national debt of Great Britain...
...prairie schooners; and again, unlike that extraordinary film, it fails notably to mix history and drama in the right proportions. The play is a saga of the cattlemen, a panorama of miles of prairie where trailed the endless herds of long horns. A villain?you know he is the villain because he shot an Indian girl while she was bathing in the creek?is in the competent hands of Noah Beery...