Word: villains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lavond, masquerading as a dear old lady,* makes big ones into little ones in the basement of a Paris doll shop, reduces his principal enemy to a 12-in. apache doll, sends him out to stick a poisoned dagger in another man he dislikes. Sentenced to die, the remaining villain confesses that the charges that sent Lavond to prison were trumped up, clearing his name so that Lavond's daughter Lorraine (Maureen O'Sullivan) can be happy with her sweetheart Tota (Frank Lawton...
...Villain of the piece is Jante, the small town in Denmark where Espen grew up, and from whose iron influence on his poverty-ridden, unhappy childhood he never fully recovered. Even when he left home, shipped as a sailor to the U. S., worked as a lumberjack in Canada, married and settled in Norway, he found Jante everywhere, its belittling, ugly standards the almost universal law of life. Because he hated and feared Jante, suddenly saw the bully who took his girl as the personification of all Jante stood for, Espen killed him and felt little remorse...
...proceed to extort money from broadcasting companies. Lloyd Nolm, who plays the company engineer, is supposed to be the here, but has antagonized the audience so that he is roundly hissed when his rescuers free him. Ann Sothern is his lady love, and Douglas Dumbrille, who has been a villain for so long that he must have a criminal mind by now, is the racketeer...
...served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence Service, he was promptly and successfully prosecuted by Attorney General Inskip. Since 1934, Sir Thomas has become the villain of an entire literature penned by indignant Britons who contend that an act which he put through the House of Commons destroyed all that is summed up by the old saw, "An Englishman's house is his castle." Under the Inskip act, as yet unenforced in full, British police...
...VILLAIN NEED BE-Vardis Fisher- Doubleday, Doran & Caxton...