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Having done the American Indian plenty of dirt over the years, using him either as stock villain or fall guy, Hollywood is trying to set matters right. If Journey Through Rosebud is any indication the Indians were better off being portrayed as blood-crazed savages. At least that left them some dignity...
Curiously, the only villain of the piece is a handsome, young Baron (Helmut Griem) who sets out to seduce both Sally and Brain with the aid of caviar, fur coats and gold cigarette cases. The source of the Baron's corrupting influence is his money and not his sexual tastes. But the audience soon forgets that fact, as the Baron's pursuit of Brain--and not the seductiveness of his wealth--becomes the movie's one fate markedly worse than death. Again, no effort is made to pinpoint the suggested relationship between the discrete deviance presented in the film...
First performed in 1969, On the Docks originally told of the reform of a careless young dock worker, whose mistakes were compounded by a grumbling, bourgeois warehousekeeper. Now the opera has been rewritten to make the warehousekeeper the main villain; he has been upgraded to a traffic-control man, and is an active saboteur. At the end he tries to sneak aboard a "foreign freighter" from "northern Europe" but is captured after a fight. This would change a major detail in the story of Lin's attempted defection. The opera says, in effect, that he was intercepted trying...
...salvage him. Finally, he has to do something noble; then the audience will feel better about him. The bonds of marriage on our show are still sacred. A man can get a divorce, but not because he's having an affair-unless, of course, he's a villain...
Singer-Actor Paul Robeson-a popular idol in the '20s when he introduced Ol' Man River in Showboat, then a popular villain in the '50s for his espousal of left-wing causes-is becoming respectable again. Now 72 and ailing, he has had a student center named after him by Rutgers University, where he played All-America football and earned a Phi Beta Kappa key as a member of the class...