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...villain might be Zachary Scott...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...plays are A.A. Milne's "The Man in the Bowler Hat," an old-fashioned melodrama, which offers everything from a heroine in a strapless gown to a villain, and Essex Dane's "Tuberoses." which tells a tragic episode concerning three sisters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Freshmen Plan Big Weekend To Raise Funds for Adoption of DP | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

What made the winter so odd? The Weather Bureau, which would like everyone to remember that it saw just such a winter shaping up as early as November, says that the same basic condition caused both the western cold and the eastern warmth. The villain, says William H. Klein of the bureau's Extended Forecast Section, was an "excess of [air] mass" in the subpolar regions of the Western Hemisphere and a "deficit of mass" in the subtropics. This unbalanced condition, favoring the southward movement of cold air, upset the whole air circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Funny Winter | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Harvey was in no hurry to hawk his song; in 20 years he had written "boxes full of songs." He knew the music business inside & out. In his teens he had played mood music on an organ in an Atlantic City movie house: "I followed the hero and the villain and really got a workout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salady Days | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...sublimely happy. The picture oozes tragedy from every pore. Nothing, but absolutely nothing, turns out right. The hero, that usually indestructible character, blunders into a hopeless jam and ends his days being squeezed into a fine aspic by the pressure in 100 fathoms of water. The heroine marries the villain in a fit of pique after her uncle has been burned to a crisp by the hero. Her life with the villain is very unhappy and she soon dies spouting cliches in the arms of the hero. The villain alone is the only one able to maintain his aplomb...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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