Word: villains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong point is that you believe everything you utter . . . at least at the moment when it rushes from your lips! . . . War-time is the very element in which men of your type flourish. . . . You feel yourself to be the redeemer of the island-empire. You consider every opponent a villain, and are convinced that no other genius ever produced such ideas as yours...
Biographers of this type claim to have established a school of analytical biography. They devote themselves to the principle that if Cesar Borgin is thought a villain and Nell Gwyn no better than she might have been, no more proof is needed for the theses that Borgia was an upstanding Christian gentleman, and Mistress Gwyn a cheerful creature with no harm in her at all. Thus these moderns display their lack of prejudice by becoming hide-bound on the unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle...
...William, although not an important role, is as usual above reproach, Alan Mowbray as Anthony Walford, is splendid, and Terrence Neill as the epigrammatic Colonial Governor is quite amusing. Miss Standing as the third and most important member of the triangle is quite good. Mr. Carnovsky as the arch-villain can have no higher compliment paid his art than to say that this member of the audience, for one, cameont of the theatre, reviling and blaspheming his Machiavellian character to the provoked horrow of a staid Bostonian night
...Joker. A ponderous pair of deep red curtains and the personality of Ralph Morgan are the chief points of interest in this play. Through these red curtains the hero is forced to walk at the big moment-presumably to instant death. His bravery unhinges the villain and pretty soon it is time to go home...
...unpleasantly accurate, it is time to go home much sooner. The Joker is a wordy and obvious melodrama. Mr. Morgan is far too good an actor to play this sort of thing, in which he is one jump ahead of the villain, poverty and cuckoldom...