Word: villains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state, bigamous in another and, after supporting his fair share of wives for a number of years, find that he has been a bachelor all his life. All these arguments Mr. Hughes has woven into a singularly tedious picture. The spectacular absurdity of his disposal of the villain (the hero throws him into a boiling Yellowstone geyser, the geyser evinces internal retching and active nausea, the villain is spewed several hundred feet in the air) provides a grotesque conclusion. One gathers that Mr. Hughes favors either a national code of divorce laws or a wider distribution of geysers...
...emotional scene was witnessed at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, the other evening. Officially it was a special performance of La Tosca given to celebrate Antonio Scotti's 25th season with the company. Jeritza was Tosca; Fleta, Cavaradossi; and Scotti himself, the villain Scarpia. It was in this role that he sang his first American performance on December...
...villain spewed several hundred feet...
...trotting and crap-shooting knocks him out. The Doctor ships him to Arizona, where a ravishing (but simple) ranchman's 'daughter nurses him back to health. Meanwhile the fox-trotter and crap-shooter runs out to Arizona for a personally conducted tour of inspection. A bad old villain chases her through a fearful storm to a deserted cabin. The hero rescues her, but she returns to fox-trotting. There is still the ranchman's daughter. Marjorie Daw, Lois Wilson, Richard Dix and Noah Beery wind this yarn into a skein of considerable entertainment...
Guido Mayr who can smile and be a villain...