Word: villainizing
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...Cheviot Hill, so excellently done by J. M. Kerrigan, a gentleman of property who is dangerously susceptible to femininity, finds himself beset with a small stage full of weeping and demonstrative ladies to whom he has quite innocently made love on other days, beset also by the Svengali-eyed villain, Belvawney and by Minnie's papa. Gilbert's fooling here is perfectly, magnificently silly, and what is gayer than untrammeled silliness...
Dangerous Innocence. A wicked old villain and an honest man with a past struggle sturdily for this particular heroine. It seems that, in the latter's past, was an affair with the girl's own mother. The villain is punched in the jaw and explains to the girl that he was lying all the time...
...traded girls. For an act, it looked as if the veteran would marry the fragile heroine and the marine youth a wizened deaf old dame with 300,000 guilders. This difficulty called for more necromancy and repentance on the part of the greedy ancient. Mr. Barrymore impersonated this old villain and gave a competent and generally commendable interpretation. But, like the whole diversion, he seemed to lack the humor and the horror of reality...
...dramas and created exceptional excitement in its day under the interpretative treatment of Henry Miller. Currently, it only goes to prove that the world does move and that almost any plot can be boiled to the bone in the cinema. There is a desert, a strong husband, a capturing villain and a subtitle that reads: "You bought me with a handful of nuggets, and then you drove me before you across the desert like a beast." This from the play. Chu Chin Chow. Morris Gest delivered this spectacle several years ago. London luxuriated in it for endless performances...
...evening, he is forced to change constantly from one character to the other. How he does it, we do not know. We are certain however, that when he appeared in the old lodge waving his sword and blasphem lng Wellington in stentorian tones and later when he misdirected the villain into a ten-mile hike in the woods looking for the girl who was not his wife, he provided the high spots of the evening...