Word: villainized
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...villain of the Cummins' news shorts is conservatism. But, like a good propagandist, Cummins sometimes varies his fare with shorts like the one on the homecoming of Hitler-loving Unity Freeman-Mitford (TiME, Jan. 15, 1940). The short was narrated in smooth doggerel,† accompanying shots of British troops keeping the press at bay with fixed bayonets...
...intimacy of the summer theatre and the holiday spirits of the audience combine to make passable fare of such plays as "Little Women" or old fashioned melodramas. If it's melodrama, you can always laugh at the play and hiss the villain when he comes in with the mortgage. "Little Women," despite its lack of a villain and the fact that it is no carefree riot, manages to supply an ample quantity of the picturesque. The story is a childhood favorite built around a family attired in dresses lifted from Godey's Ladies' Magazine and smothered in Victorian ideals...
...course, enemy fighter craft will eventually take over the villain's role now played by submarines. By then air freight will likely have fighter-plane convoys...
...picture is complete today without its ring of sinister saboteurs, and "This Gun For Hire" has its share of them, headed by hulking Laird Cregar, who again manages to turn in an effective characterization of a refreshingly unstereotyped villain. There's a love interest, too, with Preston Foster and Veronica Lake as the involved parties. Ladd doesn't win the girl-he doesn't even try-but he does win a whopping head-start as Hollywood's best discovery in years...
...likes or dislikes programs or passages for reasons all his own. In one program a man strongly approved a scene about President Roosevelt's fight against infantile paralysis because it described the fog at Campobello and he was interested in the weather. A woman liked a soap-opera villain because he always closed the door quietly...