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FILM VILLAIN NOW LOOKS MORE HUMAN

Not the least of the changes in the present-day cinema is the better appearance of the screen villain. No longer is he a toughlooking individual with wickedness stamped all over his rugged features. There is, for example, that young Mexican, Ernesto Gilliam, who was hailed as a second Valentino and rechristened Donald Reed. Reed was given two important roles, one opposite Colleen Moore, another with Billie Dove. Today he is building up a new reputation as a villain. He played in “Evangeline,” following it with “Little Johnny Jones” and “Show Girl” With Alice White. Other such cases can be cited in Edmund Lowe, Edmund Burns, Jason Robards, Raymond Hackett and Sidney Blackmer, all of whom were leading men, but figure at present as “menace” in some motion picture.

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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 30

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FILM VILLAIN NOW LOOKS MORE HUMAN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 30

FILM VILLAIN NOW LOOKS MORE HUMAN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 30