Word: villains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have helped the playwright by appearing in his play. At a party after the opening night in Atlantic City, the brother of the Montreal derelict would have recognized in the cardsharp the villain responsible for his sister's disappearance. The playboy would have fallen in love with Janet Evans and this, by a roundabout chain of circumstances, would have saved the life of the convicted murderer. So carried away is Janet Evans by these glimpses into her discarded future that she is horrified when the Kansas City playwright, who would have been her husband, walks into Heaven...
...Villain No. 2 was Attorney General Cummings, who, according to .the bellicose Wisconsin Federation, had given organized Labor "the shabbiest treatment accorded to any set of people in recent years." Mr. Cummings was flayed for failing to prosecute NRA violators. "Only a single injunction suit has been brought by Mr. Cummings." said Judge Padway, "involving the Weirton case, and this one has been so badly bungled that it should never have been started...
...Villain No. 3, singled out by President Green himself, was that famed friend of Labor, Director Donald Randall Richberg of NRA's new Industrial Emergency Committee. Mr. Green was angry with Mr. Richberg because Mr. Richberg had just announced in Washington that employers would be allowed to bargain collectively with individuals and minority groups among their workers...
...will soon seem idiotic, makes Bill Peck a lovable urchin, sure to appeal to all chronic admirers of juvenile pictures. For making Peck's Bad Boy enjoyable also to less susceptible cinemaddicts, small Jackie Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood curdling restraint. When Bill Peck returns after running away, Horace merely cocks one eyebrow and says "You back?" He does it so offensively that audiences cheer when Bill Peck...
...reporting the Gillette case as An American Tragedy (the second volume is almost a stenographic record of the trial) Author Dreiser made Society the villain for having endowed Clyde Griffiths with a sordid background and for tormenting him with emotional stresses with which he was not equipped to deal. (The film version, starring Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Sidney, angered Dreiser to the point of trying to keep it off the screen because, he complained, it slighted the Dreiser sociology...