Word: villains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Group Theatre produced Odets' sixth play, Rocket to the Moon. In Odets' own phrase, it is a play about middle-class love. Its people, running true to form, are frustrated, mired; but this time Society is not the villain...
More important than this speculation is the evidence that Britain is joining in resisting Hitler. Just possibly Chamberlain is not the villain he is generally presumed to be;--just possibly he has not sold out the whole of Eastern Europe. When the Rumanian ruler visited 10 Downing Street, he asked for a loan of $125,000,000 to case the weight of German economic pressure; in the light of yesterday's abrupt and vigorous purge, it may well be guessed that he received this--or equivalent aid. If so, the Munich Pact may merely have marked another surrender to expediency...
Hersholt takes the part, not of an amiable country doctor, but of a scheming German professor. Alan Hale is not Little John, but Karl van Hartrott, ambitious villain, greeted with hisses by the audience. Wallace Beery was cast as a tough colonel in the German army whose chief scene takes place in a bath...
...monolithic weekly which is edited, as if with mallet & chisel, by Dr. Patrick Scanlan. Last week, for the third successive time, the Tablet gave its wide-eyed readers news about a plot which, if authenticated, would have made every front page in the land. Villain of the plot was Professor Thurman Wesley Arnold, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. The plot itself: "starting a national religion and striving to control all others...
...time headliners but now hovering on the brink of the Borsch circuit, Quill encounters opposition in the form of Tropp, chancellor of the Lodge, who calls the whole thing off because Quill won't let Mrs. Tropp sing three Schubert Songs to infuse tone into the entertainment. But the villain is foiled, and by the use of false telephone calls and a little phony spiritualism, Tropp is brought to terms and the show goes...