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Like the mighty Mississippi that is both hero and villain of the picture. The River has a powerful locomotive quality that is pointed up by a Virgil Thompson (Four Saints in Three Acts) score based on bright scraps of locality music, matched in tempo by a cadenced narrative written by Lorentz...
After a long succession of disappointingly impersonal reports, the Anthracite Commission last week turned up a genuine old-fashioned villain for George Earle to hiss. Coal operators lay their troubles to high taxes and John L. Lewis. More impartial observers lay them in good measure to the coal operators, who allowed the alert oil industry to invade their market after the great anthracite strike of 1922. Almost inevitably, George Earle's commission had come around to that old favorite, the House of Morgan...
...villain of the garden world is an immigrant, the praying mantis, which compares to a bee as a dinosaur would to a man-were the dinosaur 60 feet long with eyes big as plate-glass windows and paws as long as automobiles. The praying mantis, harmless to man, has an insatiable appetite for insects, is willing to fight with anything edible up to cats and dogs-except ants. So voracious is the mantis' appetite for live food that when mating is completed, or sometimes even during mating, the female attacks the smaller male, holds him between powerful pincers, calmly...
...play is a little raw here and there, were scattered murmers in the audience over the villain's stock of phrase, which happens to be the only piece of real blasphemy the English language can boast...
...faced a 'Honduran firing squad, William Walker hoisted his own flag over "the independent Republic of Lower Californi," got himself elected President of Nicaragua, was involved in a fight with ten countries, became No. i U. S. soldier of fortune, alternately a hero, a joke and a villain. Told this week in The Filibuster, his story fills 350 large pages with an adventure story as absorbing, fast-moving and as incredible as any so far dug out of that period of sleazy brigandage below the Rio Grande...