Word: villainous
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...right out." Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house near Covent Garden...
...sentimentality. Montro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a 20th-century, streamlined job--this "Pinocchio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none of its genial moralizing and pathetic humor...
...woman customer went into such hysterics she had to be led out. On hand was Producer Zanuck's assistant, Poloist Aidan Roark. But he was blacked out by the burlier presence of the picture's villain, enormously popular colored Cinemactor Maceo B. Sheffield. Also present was Producer Friedrich's Scripter Dana Burnett. The surges of surflike laughter told both scouts that the canny Parson Friedrich had scored again...
...black wings over Cordell Hull's doorway fitted well with the mood over Washington and the U. S. Had not the drama and the villain been seen before, the lines known to the audience almost by heart? Last week the President of the U. S., receiving the Ministers of Denmark and Norway, did not hide his sympathy for them and their countries. The 1,500,000-odd Scandamericans in the U. S. prayed, raised relief funds, damned Hitler (and Great Britain, whom many taxed with provoking the invasion...
Indecency's plot is rather simple, though obviously not everybody would have thought of it. Villain is a publisher of filthy literature. Hero is Crusader Britton (Rev. R. Anderson Jardine). The publisher is in love with 1) a good girl; 2) a bad girl. The bad girl has a child by the publisher just as he is about to marry the good girl at a swanky church wedding...