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Naughty-Naught (book by John Van Antwerp; music & lyrics by Richard Lewine & Ted Fetter) is a hiss-the-villain burlesque of turn-of-the-century college life-a sort of Frank Merriwell at Yale served up with beer & pretzels-that had a nice off-Broadway run in 1937. But such things have gone on & on since 1937, they are all much alike, and each one, to get by, calls for stronger drinks and steadier drinking than the last...
While the prehistoric design of the Stadium starts the ticket scramble off with an initial handicap, the real villain of the piece is a procedure for issuing student tickets so antiquated that its origins can be recalled only by the preadamites of the H.A.A. Tradition has it that the cheering sections must be kept inviolate--no women allowed. Under the present system this means that when a student turns in his H.A.A. ticket as payment for one of the seats for his date and himself, his former seat is resold to any male who can produce the requisite ante. Large...
...Making Gary Cooper a villain...
...most controversial figures: Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the tough-minded. Australian nurse who has her own theories about the nature of infantile paralysis and insists that her own methods of treating the disease (hot packs and exercises) are the one & only effective treatment. Poliomyelitis is the movie's chief villain. But organized medicine, stupidly, relentlessly belittling the indomitable heroine, is also cast as a menace...
...strong and respectful feelings for the abandoned soldier and the miserable widow-but her slick answer to their despair is to have them meet accidentally and fall in love, because the lonely soldier reminds the lonely widow of her dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with the difference that their faces seem always to turn, like flowers to the sun, toward the klieg lights of Hollywood...