Word: villains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paul Gordon is such a villain as there never was before. We have seen a few angry people, but we never saw anyone act as Mr. Gordon does when he is angry--even on the stage. He is entirely unconvincing where he might be very impressive. We are young and inexpeenced, and if some day we meet a villain like Mr. Gordon, we will extend the latter profuse apologies. But we don't believe there...
...This garden he cultivates with money, which ha describes as "a most powerful fertiliser," apparently forgetting that money has no smell. One of his mermaid myrmidons flees and takes shelter on the noble bosom of a rival rich man. When they return from their honeymoon, the villain hounds her at a dinner so that she misses a good meal. After the act has run long enough the husband explains that he has known her scarlet past all along, but has kept silence in order to learn the identity of the man who equipped her with it. Then he spits...
...them a few snow scenes. A young spendthrift (Conrad Nagel) is forced to land in his airplane in Canada. He falls in love with the inevitable backwoods beauty (Alma Rubens). When she is ashamed to be seen in the best circles with him because of her underbreeding, the wily villain sends the innocent girl to Paris for culture. This situation can be straightened out only when Hero and Villain, again in the north woods, peel off 14 overcoats and fight. Men. This is all woman, for it Is all Pola Negri. It is her best picture to date, although...
Woman to Woman. Betty Compson does better work with the role of a little Montmartre dancer than is usually the case, though the only truly notable feature of the triangular story is the lack of a good, thoroughgoing villain...
...Englishman who has been brought up sober, diligent and respectable, and his carrying off to sea to be made a pirate on the very evening of the day he is made a small partner with his old employer. The kidnaper claims to be his father, very certainly is a villain--but he knows how to appreciate a "tall ship," as does the author whose passion for the sea runs through her former book