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...villain need be! Passions spin the plot...
Died, Lowell Sherman, 49, oldtime actor (High Stakes, The Woman Disputed), cinema villain (Way Down East), director (She Done Him Wrong, Morning Glory); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...
Warburg's Villain is a typical college "drunk" who wears a coonskin coat and tries to make love to the heroine. But she is infatuated with a footballer (Charles Laskey) who, badly banged up after a game, is carried in on the shoulders of adoring young Yalemen. Left alone with the heroine he tackles her at the knees, rolls her over, suddenly becomes exhausted and limp...
...Cabinet news was just one name: CANABAL. Handsome as the Hollywood villain of Mexican cinema, His Excellency Tomas Garrido Canabal has been the terror of Catholics as Governor of the State of Tabasco. "What is God?", Canabal is fond of sneering. "Nobody can tell me, but God has cost Mexico billions! We are going to stop that waste...
There are other aspects of the gay nineties or frivolous eighties than those depicted by Mae West. In "Judge Priest," we see a small southern town, actually, Paducah, Kentucky fifteen or twenty years after the Civil War. They are clearly defined. There is the villain, a golden-tongued, politician. There are the heroes (1) Judge Priest, (2) Ellie May's ex-convict father, (3) Jerome Priest (young love interest). There are minor villains and a heroine and of course a supporting cast of half heroes. For most people, though, whether they are southerners or not, the best performance is that...