Word: villainized
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...Supreme Court upheld all sentences, except that of the elder Burns. As Chief of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, (1921-24) Detective Burns was once a Hero. During the court investigation he was pictured as a "villain." The Supreme decision clears him of "villiany" leaves unsullied his record as a world-famed sleuth...
...Paul, though heir to the Claverian throne, began life as the son of a simple U. S. garage-owner-how he met Margaret Harting, the daughter of a pacifist lecturer, and loved her. Then duty called. Someone had been assassinated. He returned to Clavery and met (a) the villain, Michael, would-be usurper of the throne, whom he shoots for the mad dog of a militarist he is; (b) Princess Helen of Saevia whom he loves, and marries, without any regrets for the U. S. girl. As a novel, The King Who Was a King is thus unconventional in form...
...another book by. . . ." Frank Swinnerton, long-accepted writer of suave character studies, also wrote a First Novel, and it won him "immediate recognition as a young writer of distinction." Published now in this country, The Merry Heart is subtitled "A Gentle Melodrama," involving as it does the death of villain and the charming capers of a gay, cynical young hero. The complicated plot is only less fortuitous than that of Swinnerton's latest novel, A Brood of Ducklings −Hero Locritus tracks down the villain who has absconded with his sister Fanny, only to discover that the same...
...freight-house prison with an axe and reaches him just before a cardboard locomotive trundles by. It is acted with true old-fashioned fervor by a cast which enters into the spirit of the occasion with a rush. Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed by John Ferguson, Helene Dumas, Ella Houghton. It is good fun if you feel like hissing, cheering and stamping your feet unrestrainedly. Next door there is a brass-railed Bowery...
...Octoroon. Hissing the villain and shouting directions to the hero came back into vogue with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...