Possible Clues:

• Mean and cowardly
• Wicked old man stealing leading lady's coat
• Playing darts, lady is mean and wicked!
• Iniquitous
• Despicable
• Malicious
• Cruel to have big role parting old man and lady without notice
• Mean to be paternal (?) about celebrity
• Cowardly
• Like a vaudevillian villain