Word: villain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efficient criminal organization, piles murder on mysterious murder until all London is terrorized. Scotland Yard, as usual, gets it in the neck, but this time gives as good as it gets. Author Wallace strews his text with clues, but he is also an adept with red herrings. When the villain is finally unmasked, there is more than one gasp in the audience...
Strangely for once a Boston audience seemed to warm up and get into the spirit of the piece. By the middle of the second act very nearly everyone in the house was hissing the dark sleek villain and wildly cheering the hero and his virtuous sayings. It was indeed an unlooked for pleasure to see spectators young and old clapping their hands in high glee in time with the music and stamping heavily on the accented beat. The atmosphere was extremely contagious, and few found it possible to stand aloof from the general merriment...
...plot of "After Dark" is scarcely worth mentioning as much. It is the traditional story of the hero who gets into bad company at once, and the intricate complications which follow are all in the best melodramatic style, and lend themselves perfectly to phrases like "Unhand me villain" and the like, all of which are greeted with uproarious cheers from the audience...
...Ghost Parade recounts some of the perplexities which confront the British Army in India, including a cabal who dress up as spooks in order to smuggle firearms to the natives, and an unpleasant Hindu who, instead of being the villain as no one had suspected, is really Cyril Teetarn, detective. It is a venture in more than one way distressing...
Actor Smith. "As late as 1916, when I was sheriff of New York, the parish needed funds, so we produced Boucicault's The Shaughraun in the basement of the church. I played Corry Kinchela. the villain. . . . The hero was played by James J. Walker, now Mayor of the City of New York. ... I have often said that my prominence in them [amateur theatricals] played no small part in bringing me to the attention of the people of my neighborhood, which, unquestionably, in time to come, had something to do with my elections...