VILLAINY
The villainy of a character in the American drama is appraised by an American audience in accordance with the following schedule of black marks:
| 1. | Black moustache | 20 points |
| 2. | Riding boots | 36 points |
| 3. | Riding boots and crop | 47 points |
| 4. | Foreign accent (save Irish) | 29 points |
| 5. | Top hat | 8 points |
| 6. | Patent-leather shoes | 8 points |
| 7. | Long cigarette holder | 4 points |
| 8. | Well fitting clothes | 52 points |
| 9. | Sexual virility | 84 points |
| 10. | Good manners | 76 points |
| 11. | Inclination to believe that a woman over twenty is perfectly able to take care of herself | 91 points |
| 12. | Inclination to believe that a woman over twenty-five is perfectly able to take care of herself | 92 points |
| 13. | Inclination to believe that a woman over thirty is perfectly able to take care of herself | 93 points |
| 14. | Inclination to believe that women between the ages of thirty-five and ninety are perfectly able to take care of themselves | 94 points |
| 15. | Inclination to believe that women between the ages of twenty and ninety are perfectly able to take care of themselves if they want to, but that they usually don’t want to | 95 points |
| 16. | One who believes that when a woman is married she does not necessarily because of this fact lose all interest in the world | 82 points |
| 16a. | Or in a good time | 83 points |
| 17. | Boutonniere | 9 points |
| 18. | Suspicion on the part of the villain that the hero is a blockhead | 98 points |
| 19. | Verbal statement of the above fact by the villain | 99 points |
| 20. | Common sense | 100 points |