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...half the life in The Wookey comes from Edmund Gwenn, an actor with a capacity for making mediocre parts seem masterpieces of playwriting. In the cinema Foreign Correspondent, as an eerie minor villain who tried to push hero Joel McCrea off a tall tower, in The Earl of Chicago as a gentleman's gentleman who looked after gangster Robert Montgomery, he stole whole scenes from the principals. But as Mr. Wookey he steals nothing; the play is handed to him and he runs away with...
...asides that made listeners guffaw; he made them cry with his exhortation to the fallen nations. Now he lashed Britain's enemies with the splendor of Elizabethan arrogance; now he hissed at them in a way remindful of an old-time dime-novel hero polishing off the villain in the last chapter...
...Villain of latter-day Pan-Germanism is not Hitler, says Author Chéradame, but the German General Staff. When the General Staff saw that it must lose World War I it utilized the fear of Bolshevism to win an armistice. (Last week the Germans were once more "saving Europe" from Bolshevism.) But the General Staff never considered the Armistice anything more than an armistice. Kept intact through the Reichswehr, the General Staff planned to continue the war as soon as possible, first by what André Chéradame calls scientific warfare (propaganda, the war of nerves, etc.), later...
...bordered by obstructions, Russell Wright had come off better than anyone had a right to expect. He had also figured in the first of eight serious U.S. airline crashes (five of them fatal) since last August that could definitely be charged to mechanical failure. Weather was the No. 1 villain in all the rest...
Starting with the judge episode in "My Favorite Wife," the News traces the "Let's Pan Yale Crusade" through "Hired Wife," "The Villain Still Pursued Her," "Love Thy Neighbor," "Strawberry Blonde," and finally "The Lady Eve," in which a bored waiter gives vent to a sneering "We want Pike's Ale, the ale that won for Yale...