Word: villainizing
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...villain and murderer, one Crown, hitherto ably impersonated by Jack Carter, will henceforth be impersonated by Paul Robeson, famed Negro singer and actor. Several songs deleted from Crown's role will be put back for Mr. Robeson to sing...
...simple title Trial Marriage. As it was then, it is now, a too wordy, too self-serious story .of a wistful but determined chit who refused to marry the man she loved until she had tried living with him, and who then, through the machinations of a reedy villain, goes to jail for a shooting instead of to church for a wedding. Sadder and less idiotic, she gets out in time for the last act. The action of the play is ample but is gathered after too many innings of intense conversation. Phyllis Poyah acts it well...
...Robert Malachi Crowe, lecherous Negro, was the villain. His Tribune want ad called for the services of a nurse. A Ruth Sampson answered the ad, and her he assaulted. Then he disappeared. The attack made an excellent Tribune story; the Negro's arrest would make another. But best for the paper's business office, if he were caught, would be the well-spread cry: The Tribune guarantees the integrity of even its want ads. . . . Truth among the agate lines...
...Reporter Moses Lamson was set upon Negro Crowe's scent. He used skullduggery and pipelines of sly information-police, stool pigeons, private detectives, Pullman porters, servants. . . . Shrewdly he asked the best catch-scamps -doctors-to watch for the villain. The quarry has cancer of the stomach (TIME, Feb. 20, MEDICINE...
...annoyed them when Sculptor Caoudal spread a true scandal about Fanny, saying that she was the nakedest and not the least contaminated of all the artists' models in Paris; but they were delighted when Fanny leaped upon this villain and clawed the collar off his neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images...