Word: villainizing
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What may be called the consensus of suspicion favored Mussolini as the villain of the piece last week.** Conservative observers were not so sure. Brazil is far from Europe. It is most convenient to all the Great Powers that a nation so far from Europe can now be loaded with the whole cargo of official blame...
...alike, register their reactions with rational fidelity except in the crises of the narrative. Precisely when they need to be most convincing they become incredible. One only, Protos, mastermind of the plot, arch-rogue and conspirator, reveals through all his many disguises a living, breathing man, as admirable a villain as ever emerged from an inkwell...
Mary Blair plays the role of Lady Isabel, who runs away with the mustached and booted villain and comes to no good end in Paris. Miss Blair is more often associated with the plays of Eugene O'Neill, having created more of his heroines than any other actress. She shows in East Lynne a comic talent which peeped but timidly from behind the truth-stained characters of this greatest dramatist...
Married. Lowell Sherman, 40, famed villain actor, to Pauline Garon, 22, cinema actress; at Manhattan...
Miss Rambeau is called upon to solve again the old problem of how far a wife should go to keep her husband out of the villain's clutches. The clutches in this case mean a jail term. As usual the villain has loved the wife. This calls inevitably for a scene in the villain's bedroom with the wife preserving her self-respect at the point of a gun. There is a backspin on the ending, unusually sharp but scarcely worth the depression of the first three acts...