Word: villains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still shy, scholarly and a Dickens enthusiast but he does not take himself so seriously as he did at 13. The Tale of Two Cities, he decided not long ago, might make a good operetta if the plot were juggled around a bit. Charles Darnay might become a conventional villain, Sidney Carton could escape and go back to Lucy, sedate Miss Pross could become a comedienne called Prossie. . . . He proceeded haltingly to pick out tunes on the piano...
...Farquhar '32, induces his father to buy up the debts of the father of Betty-Ann Sawyer, a part played by R. W. Kuhl '32, and thus makes it possible for him to marry her. S. C. Dorman '33 takes the part of Mason Bradley, the smooth villain, who nearly outwits Gerry Randall in their courtship of Betty-Ann. The next to the last scene is laid in Steve's speakeasy, in which M. A. Heath '33, playing the part of the bartender does a clever piece of acting...
...were Lieut.-Colonel Erasmo Delgado, the Great Detective who nearly solved the mystery of the bomb that wrecked the bathroom of President Machado's son-in-law fortnight ago, and Lieut. Miguel A. Calvo, chief of the Bomb Squad of the National Police. Still convinced that the real villain back of the bathroom bombing was none other than ex-Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez, Great Detective Delgado raided La Purisma Market, formerly operated by the municipal administration of Senor Gomez, discovered a complete bomb factory, 200 pounds of dynamite, fuses, tin cans, other impedimenta, not counting piles of rifles...
...Bacharach was the veterans' hero, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon logically became their villain last week when he wrote a strong public letter objecting to this bonus legislation. The gist of his argument was that the Treasury could not stand the financial strain. Predicting a $500,000,000 deficit next July (last estimate: $350,000,000), he declared the measure created "a potential liability of $1,720,000,000"-that is, if all veterans borrowed to the limit. The Treasury, he explained, had some $772,000,000 securities in a sinking fund reserve to pay off the bonus...
...These are the most serious roles Farrell & Gaynor have ever tried. The results should prove to anyone's satisfaction that the only thing they can do on the screen is what they made their reputation for-poetic comedy-dramas of young love. Most gratifying shot: exposure of the villain as a detective in the service of Farrell's rich father...