Word: villains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nantucket whaler. And there are innumerable Bozo's in the crowd who take almost childlike delight in bellowing wisecracks at the actors. We must confess that we ourselves were so so carried away by the spirit of the occasion that we emitted a few almost inaudible hisses when the villain put in his dastardly appearance. There are a good many skits which, we must admit, seemed strikingly spontaneous...
...midst of black despair, Chopin's fortune changed. Baroness de Rothschild invited him to play at a soiree. Instantly he was Society's pet, besieged by highborn ladies who begged him to give them lessons. Then, like a villain in a play, George Sand strode into his life, flaunting her male attire, puffing at a black cigar. According to Author Murdoch, that bestselling novelist was "an odd mixture of vulture and vampire." Once a lover was discarded, she used him cruelly for copy and the disguise was thin. In 1838 Chopin and Sand acknowledged their liaison by going...
...woman, expertly tender in her scenes with Cavaradossi, wildly furious when she murdered Scarpia, crouched gloatingly over his body. The Scarpia was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and it was his big chance to add another telling impersonation to his Simone Boccanegra and his Emperor Jones. But Tibbett was no great villain. He made himself a bigger nose but his make-up in general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle with Lehmann. But his audience remembered too well the cunning of Scotti, the insinuating grace, the evil that...
...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...