Word: villainizing
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...last few hundred feet, when a forest conflagration banishes the leisurely plot and burns the whole thing in a blaze of melodrama. The fire enables Jacqueline Logan and Antonio Moreno to prove her father's fire-fighting apparatus the most efficient in the world. Since everyone but the villain had been trying to prove this throughout the picture, it was the normal solution. The earlier stages of the action, dealing with life in a Main Street Manufacturing Company, are only mildly arousing. Miss Logan is still one of the prettiest in all the cinema seraglio...
...state, bigamous in another and, after supporting his fair share of wives for a number of years, find that he has been a bachelor all his life. All these arguments Mr. Hughes has woven into a singularly tedious picture. The spectacular absurdity of his disposal of the villain (the hero throws him into a boiling Yellowstone geyser, the geyser evinces internal retching and active nausea, the villain is spewed several hundred feet in the air) provides a grotesque conclusion. One gathers that Mr. Hughes favors either a national code of divorce laws or a wider distribution of geysers...
...emotional scene was witnessed at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, the other evening. Officially it was a special performance of La Tosca given to celebrate Antonio Scotti's 25th season with the company. Jeritza was Tosca; Fleta, Cavaradossi; and Scotti himself, the villain Scarpia. It was in this role that he sang his first American performance on December...
...villain spewed several hundred feet...
...trotting and crap-shooting knocks him out. The Doctor ships him to Arizona, where a ravishing (but simple) ranchman's 'daughter nurses him back to health. Meanwhile the fox-trotter and crap-shooter runs out to Arizona for a personally conducted tour of inspection. A bad old villain chases her through a fearful storm to a deserted cabin. The hero rescues her, but she returns to fox-trotting. There is still the ranchman's daughter. Marjorie Daw, Lois Wilson, Richard Dix and Noah Beery wind this yarn into a skein of considerable entertainment...