Word: villainizing
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...monolithic weekly which is edited, as if with mallet & chisel, by Dr. Patrick Scanlan. Last week, for the third successive time, the Tablet gave its wide-eyed readers news about a plot which, if authenticated, would have made every front page in the land. Villain of the plot was Professor Thurman Wesley Arnold, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. The plot itself: "starting a national religion and striving to control all others...
...time headliners but now hovering on the brink of the Borsch circuit, Quill encounters opposition in the form of Tropp, chancellor of the Lodge, who calls the whole thing off because Quill won't let Mrs. Tropp sing three Schubert Songs to infuse tone into the entertainment. But the villain is foiled, and by the use of false telephone calls and a little phony spiritualism, Tropp is brought to terms and the show goes...
...essential thing about the production is the beer: after the fourth or fifth schooner the audience roundly cheers the Harvard man for refusing to touch liquor, just as roundly cheers the Girl from Wyoming (June Walker) for having been weaned on it, loudly hisses a villain who looks like a referee at a snake race...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
Last fortnight, at the second-run Ritz Theatre in Los Angeles, audiences chuckled good-naturedly at Producer Buell's novelty horse opera, but only once did they really howl : when three-foot-nine Hero Billy Curtis, pursuing three-foot-nine villain Little Billy, galloped off on a black pony, was soon scooting along on a white pony, finished the chase on the black. Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell...