Word: villain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come forward with her second study of Carolina mountain types. The brilliant promise of her first play is only sluggishly sustained. The Shame Woman deals with the seduction of two girls by the same man at an interval of 20 years. In each of the villain's words critics detected the echoes of "10-20-30" melodrama. The production was chiefly notable for the excellent performance of Florence Rittenhouse in the title part...
...Jean Marie" is a tragedy, very much like Ternyson's "Enoch Arden", "Los Deux Timides" or "The Two Bashful Ores" is a comedy whose characters are a villain, a bashful father, a loving daughter and a bashful lover. It ends happily, "Le Bonhomme Jadis" tells how old Jalis again becomes young in the love of a young couple. These three plays will b e presented once, at the Wednesday matinee...
...follow. To the average man, if there is such a creature, life is only too mechanical and humdrum. It would be an overdose of ippecac to ask such a man to read nothing but political and church news. When he reads about a murder, he identifies himself with the villain or the victim, he hears the gun crack, and thus he gets his daily thrill...
...sufficiently clever little melodrama, which is not entirely disclosed until the third act at least, and even then reserves a surprise for the end in the shape of an unexpected technicality. This frees the hero after he has had the satisfaction of slaying the villain, and consequently causes great rejoicing to all, and no little surprise to the people on the stage, who never seem to expect felicitous endings. As is customary, the villain is a rejected suitor of the heroine, while naturally, the hero is the accepted one. Filled with well-simulated hatred, the villain arranges a charming little...
...Mead ($1.75). Four short detective stories?the first three told from an unusual point of view, for one first follows the criminal through the commission of his crime and then traces out the clues that lead to his detection. The detective concerned specializes in microscopy and captures one canny villain from the infinitesimal evidence offered by the hair of a camel. Among the best of this year's crop of Sherlockings...