Word: villainizing
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Monroe Owsley, who has been a cinema cad so often that his last name sounds like a pun, tries hard to be an oily villain but his part, like everything else in the story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted...
...lady remembers cautiously how her father killed a villain...
...ANGRY MAN-Leonard Ehrlich- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). If anything could make you believe that old John Brown, hero-villain of Osawotamie and Harper's Ferry, was a great soul, God's Angry Man could. Author Leonard Ehrlich has stuck close to facts but insists his book is a novel, not biography or history. Its tone is sombre without relief. As the cumulative tragedy comes to its climax few readers will wish for any but the inevitable outcome. For a man who had lived the life of old John Brown, his end was best...
...that won the game. A villain foiled, Pitcher Bush went completely to pieces in the sixth, when he walked four batters. He was replaced by Spitballer Burleigh Grimes, who worked for St. Louis in last year's Series. By the time the sloppy inning was over. New York had five runs on two hits and no Chicago errors. The Cubs got four runs in the last three innings, but so did the Yankees. New York 12, Chicago...
...should reasonably have solved the situation and ended the picture in three minutes. The origin of his power is given as his eyes ("hypnotism, nothing more") and Edmund Lowe's affable face works hard trying to look mystical. Tear-gas is used to make his eyes impotent and give Villain Lugosi a chance to prolong the picture. Resurrected from the bottom of the Nile. Lowe out-eyes Lugosi and the death-ray explodes, leaving civilization untoasted...