Word: villainized
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...Lihua, one of China's leading actresses, who gets $70 million CN a picture (U.S. $1,400). Li Lihua's role was that of a widow, down to her last dress. She advertises for a husband and gives the impression that she is an heiress. The villain, a wealthy Chinese, reads the ad while in a barber's chair. Fearing his own wife's reactions if he answers it, he persuades the handsome barber to pretend that he is the tycoon, marry the girl, split the profits later...
...Jungle Virgin" give a new, exciting, neolithic twist to the love-triangle, the title character keeping her dubious claim largely because the outside corner, a real cad, confines himself to the oldfashioned bear hug. Tita, an uncommonly puny hero, though ferocious enough when need be, finally finds the villain making advances in a tree, after having kidnapped a baby elephant. He makes a brilliant tackle, and all ends happily when the villain falls into the paws of a conveniently waiting leopard. As far as anyone knows, the jungle virgin lives happily as such ever after...
...fact; but if for no better reason that they know they will be found out and discredited, editors are not likely to feature a big story that they know to be incorrect. The most charitable interpretation is that the Sun is guilty only of carelessness, and that the real villain of the piece is the as yet unknown source of the "facts...
Perils is a good-humored show, mainly designed to please people who enjoy hissing the villain. Those who used to be too excited to hiss, and who wildly applauded Pearl's always predictable but always miraculous escapes, will feel there is a good deal missing. The chances are that Pearl herself, with her prominent film career and her long, sporting afterglow in Europe, was a much more interesting woman than is suggested in this movie. It is also possible that a movie which showed the making of those first, primitive flickers as it really happened would be good...
...many a U.S. town, children vomited and complained of sore throats and headaches. To some harried parents, the explanation was as plain as the wads in their youngsters' jaws: the poisonous villain must be bubble...