Word: demonism
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...when he won the open title. Last week, golfdom's shadow of doubt about him as a match-player was dissipated when he beat W. T. Thompson (Canadian champion) 6 and 5; D. C. Corkran (Gold Mashie winner, tournament medalist) 3 and 2; R. E. Knepper (onetime Princetonian, demon putter) 6 and 4; Francis Ouimet (onetime amateur and open champion, clockwork putter, inexorable match-player) 11 and 10; then...
Sweeney Todd. Rich, ruddy, raucous melodrama, vintage of 1842, in two murderous acts and eight vein-chilling scenes, telling the bloody history of The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was revived. Wendell Phillips Dodge, producer, calculated (accurately) upon obtaining the same effect as that produced by an old family tintype with the head-clamps showing...
...over too painlessly for that. Behind it is an occasionally effective melodramatic structure wherein a man of society, joining the Federal Prohibition forces because of the death of his sister, dons a disguise that would actually mislead the sharp-witted breed, the bootlegger, and succeeds in laying low Demon Rum. Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love and Warner Baxter stand out in this film...
...story. Zamiel, the wild huntsman, a blackhearted, fire-eating demon, has in his power Kaspar, a forester in the service of Prince Ottokar of Bohemia. Kaspar is doomed to forfeit his soul to the wizard unless he can find another victim. As a candidate he picks the noble young hero, Max, who loves Agatha, daughter of the Prince's chief ranger, one Kuno. In the shooting contest which is to 'decide who is to be Kuno's successor, Kaspar, through Zamiel's magic, makes Max miss the target. Max despairs (very tunefully...
Sabine Baring-Gould was within 26 days of 90 last week when he died in Devonshire. Of all writers he was the most fecund. His 147 works include novels, lives of the saints in 15 volumes, fairytales, autobiography (A Demon Churchman) and, above all, hymns. Two hymns universal in the Protestant world are his, viz.: Now the Day is Over and Onward, Christian Soldiers...