Word: villainizing
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...muddled playwright and an arty director, a not untalented cast was doomed from the start. Apparently assuming that twisted bodies mean twisted souls, they writhed like the Laocoon group. A revolutionary solemnly announced that only a small part of the human race have their heads cut off. The villain twitched about the stage like Mephistopheles with a tic. The audience half expected Fannie Brice to burst in, roll her eyes, and mutter as she did of yore: "It is always c-o-old in Roosia...
Capitalizing on recent interest in movie history, 20th Century Fox has delved back into the files and brought out two scenes of slap-stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance...
...younger brother Wally," testified Noah Beery, "lost $80,000, but my brother also wants Gilbert Beesemyer to be given another chance." The former movie villain had scarcely done talking when he suffered a heart attack; he had to be assisted out of the room. "My doctor told me not to come," he gasped. "But hell, I couldn't let this fellow down...
...aiding the escape of fugitives from German prison camps, has appeared as the heroine of three cinemas. The first, and most bravura, version was made in the U. S. in 1918, year before Nurse Cavell was reinterred by the British in Norwich Cathedral and Germany took the villain's rap at Versailles. In 1928 British Producer Herbert Wilcox presented in Dawn a more objective edition in keeping with the forgive-&-forget spirit of Locarno. The third, made in Hollywood this year by Producer Wilcox and his brightest star, Anna Neagle (Victoria the Great, Sixty Glorious Years), was apparently designed...
Biggest disappointment Mr. Clark experienced was his discovery that The Phoenix (1875) was not really lost; it was printed in one small edition in 1900. This play he thinks was the first to use the line, "And the villain still pursued her." Most painstaking search was for the script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line...