Word: villains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
Plans for the presentation of "Rio Grande" by Charles F. Townsend at Leverett House on Tuesday, March 20, are well under way, and the cast of characters has been chosen. Chaste maidens, bad villains, and languishing beauties will be on the stage in this drama which tells of army life in New Mexico in the early eighties. Nixon deTarnowsky '35, a veteran of a similar play given last year, will take the part of a love-lorn maiden, Retta; the villain will be acted by Milton I. Byer '35, who is known as a very wicked man from former roles...
...outward appearances, the biggest thing that ever happened in Brunswick, Iowa was the daily arrival of the 6:45, which sometimes came in on time. But plenty of other excitement went on just below the surface. Drury. the town villain, was making a cuckold out of little Bolly Hootman. Slaughter Somerville, No. 1 Citizen, was in love with the deacon's wife. Station Agent Ben doggedly pursued cat-like Lulu, unaware that she was after Slaughter. When the deacon found Slaughter and his pretty wife practicing hymns together in the church and peppered them with birdshot, all these situations...
...peace & quiet in his quarrelsome house, took his evening paper out in the graveyard to read; the sweet Alice who was known as "the Roarer and Greeter," not because she was hospitable but because anything out-of-the-way made her roar and greet (howl and cry); the town villain's tale of Robbie Burns's entry into heaven...
...tale, Author Cain's high-powered shocker will keep many a reader spellbound. The Postman Always Rings Twice, though it gives the impression of a stark naked love-&-murder story, is actually narrative stripped to its underwear. Author Cain's hero is as hard as any cinema villain but he obeys cinema rules, goes sappy...