Word: villainous
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...years Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company had a villain without peer. He seemed kindly enough backstage but when he strode before an audience as Baron Scarpia, Chief of the Roman Police in Puccini's Tosca, he became so sinister and malevolent that he set an all-time standard for that melodramatic role. Antonio Scotti was stabbed by 17 different Toscas from the time the opera had its U. S. premiere in 1901 until he sang his farewell (TIME. Jan. 30, 1933). Last week when the Metropolitan revived Tosca for the first time in three years, there...
...bender with quite the incumbent grace. Gaspar Bacon, as Yankee Joe, brought forth great admiration for his clever dancing in the radium paint number. Mrs. Murphy or Lawrence Nichols dominated one scene, with her irrepressible joviality. Mrs. Murphy is a goodie. Anderson Page fills the role of the villain capably by completely deserting his own personality...
...capabilities of Edward G. Robinson as an actor are well known. In this picture the audience is provided with an excellent opportunity to decide which they prefer: Mr. Robinson the hero, or Mr. Robinson the gangster-villain. For in this picture Mr. Robinson is both. The story concerns itself with the adventures of a poor, harmless, rabbit-like clerk when it is discovered that he bears an astonishing resemblance to the escaped killer and big shot, Mannion, Both paris are played by Mr. Robinson. Jean Arthur, who has seldom shone very brightly in the stellar firmament of Hollywood, gives...
...large cast there were no individual stars, all playing their parts to perfection. Mr. Jaffee was a very vain and effeminate villain, pursuing the beauteous Miss Hoyden (Mr. Cummin), who did not care to whom she surrendered her irksome virginity. Mr. Gross made a handsome young hero, while Mr. Gaggin was a robust father of the heroine. Playing his part with feeling, Mr. Kuhlke made a fine man of doubtful virility. Also not to be forgotten were Mr. Rabenold, who was perfect as the hero's young servant, and Mr. Humphreys, who made a vigorous old nurse...
...prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there's three more acts...