Word: villainizing
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After a little while at Tome School and at Annapolis where he stroked his class crew, George Bancroft became an actor. Like other actors from the East, he went into pictures to play western villains. In Driven he was billed as The Smiling Villain. Smiling villainy became his specialty. When Underworld set box-office records and a fashion for crook stories, he was made a star. Looking younger than his age (43) he earns about $5,000 per week, takes a swim every day, has a mild aptitude for humorous anecdotes which he acts out gravely as he goes along...
Shylock as a stage character has been the subject of many various interpretations. For Fritz Leiber he was almost a tragic hero, while George Arliss played the role as a fawning and thoroughly wicked villain. In this latest production of "The Merchant of Venice" now playing at the Tremont, Mr. Maurice Moscovitch gives what seems to this reviewer to be the most intelligent estimation of the Jew of Venice that has been presented in recent years. Neither one extreme nor the other, Shylock, as Mr. Moscovitch portrays him, is a very complex character, a man who commands at once scorn...
...tears for his daughter and his ducats, but the sincere lament that follows immediately after for the loss of Leah's ring certainly arouses anything but scorn. Again, when Bassanio and Antoncate comedy, and Shylock a wretch who gets his just deserts, but he is not a stage villain of Gothic blackness. Instead, Mr. Moscovitz shows a fusion of contradictory emotions: gile and hate mixed with love and sincerety, a true Shakesperean character...
...case remains obscure, if not malicious. We have always listened politely, if not quite enthusiastically, to the Yankees' music, to debutantes gushing over the charms of the ingenuous Rudy: the Princetonian has even printed some of the interviews which its freshman heelers have extorted from the Villain of Villa Vallee. Furthermore, if he had only given us sufficient warning of his intent, we might have found an alumnus indignant and opulent enough to subsidize the suppression of the offensive disc. Daily Princetonian...
...plot is swift, kaleidoscopic. Trapper Hero saves Dance-Hall Heroine from a fate worse than Death. Villain, a smooth little thing with a grin nothing can eradicate, admires Hero's prowess in the ensuing free-for-all, goes into partnership with him in the trapping business. Hero is brawny but brainless, is easily tricked by Villain, who runs off with Heroine to wicked Manhattan. When Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries...