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...Wouldn't Say Yes," will be remembered as the Western Union messenger on the Jack Benny radio program a few years ago who drawled, "Sor-ry, but y'can't have the telegram 'thout signin'...comp'ny reg'lations y'know." He nasalizes similar lines as the psychopathic villain in the slight chiller now filling the Copley Theatre. The down-easter with the Maine twang is, in blunt fact, "Little Brown Jug's" sole claim to a dubious fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 2/26/1946 | See Source »

When an audience cheers freely every time a play's protagonist scores a villain. It's fair to conclude that the author has successfully dramatized his thoughts. But when an audience applauds as frankly moral a play as "Deep Are the Roots", it's proper to inquire by what osmosis the seedling human consciousness draws food from this moral ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Deep Are the Roots" | 2/1/1946 | See Source »

...when Cio-Cio-San committed hara-kiri there were many tear-filled eyes. The Met's general manager Edward Johnson, who in his tenor days sang Pinkerton some 50 times, is inclined to absolve him. Said he: "He's no villain, really. He's a romantic-a biological romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poor Butterfly | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Grey (Gainsborough-Universal) is a heavily romantic, British-made melodrama tailored for the matinee trade. Adapted from a sugary, swashbuckling novel by the late Lady Eleanor Smith, it is a Regency costume piece containing all the time-tested materials: a gypsy fortuneteller; a scowling, black-browed villain; a gushy diary kept by a doe-eyed girl named Clarissa who munches candied violets; a wavy-haired hero with beautiful strong teeth; a fire-breathing adventuress who dotes on discord and low-cut gowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...picture's production tricks are obvious enough but very effective: no one ever moves without glancing back over his shoulder; the camera eye blurs with rage as Powell's fists beat & beat at the villain's face; the screen goes black while the hero fumbles about in a dark room ; two characters hold an important conversation near a subway track so that nearly every sentence is suspensefully interrupted by the roar of a passing train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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