Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's Triangle show is set in Restoration England. Vaporous Charles II, called to the throne from his nightshirt, wants to purchase the Isle of Blight, a French channel patch. As buying agents he sends the Duke of Clarendon, a villain with designs on the King's throne, and the Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle...
...cast is an interesting cross-section of the upper crust of Los Angeles' South Central Avenue (Negro district). Villain Maceo B. Sheffield was for ten years the meanest looking cop on the L. A. police force, now owns a piece of the 41 Club, the 833 Club, the Montmartre and the Last Round. Connie Harris, who works in the Paradise Cafe in Yuma, Ariz., has been described as a streamlined coffeecake; Comedian F. E. Miller once wrote an all-colored show (Shuffle Along), which was better than most white musicals produced in its time, ran two years on Broadway...
...feature, Nero Wolfe returns with Archy Goodwin in "The League of Frightened Men," unsatisfactory as so many mystery films are because the identity of the villain is not proved until the final scene, because almost any of a number of characters might have been selected by detective Walter Connolly instead of the one whom he did select...
Like the mighty Mississippi that is both hero and villain of the picture. The River has a powerful locomotive quality that is pointed up by a Virgil Thompson (Four Saints in Three Acts) score based on bright scraps of locality music, matched in tempo by a cadenced narrative written by Lorentz...
After a long succession of disappointingly impersonal reports, the Anthracite Commission last week turned up a genuine old-fashioned villain for George Earle to hiss. Coal operators lay their troubles to high taxes and John L. Lewis. More impartial observers lay them in good measure to the coal operators, who allowed the alert oil industry to invade their market after the great anthracite strike of 1922. Almost inevitably, George Earle's commission had come around to that old favorite, the House of Morgan...