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This synthetic U.S. folk tale, a triumphant Yankee version of Faust, was invented by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (in a short story, The Demi and Daniel Webster). A ticklish job for adaptation to the screen, it has been handled with skill and good humor by Producer-Director William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur). All That Money Can Buy is definitely superior cinema...
...champion drink-cadger of Paris, the Sparrow, after a whole night's expensive buying by his pals, would say: "No, pals, this one's on me," and order up a round of demi-blondes. He almost never ate any food except the hard-boiled eggs he would swipe from bars...
...various forms-Icke, Ike, Icken, Iken, Ihk, Ihken, Itzken, Itken, Ickel, Ickels, Ickes-and that these are all to be found in Heintze-Cascorbi's Die Deutschen Familiennamen, Berlin, 1933. The upper half of the shield is silver with a gold crescent on the breast of the black "demi eagle." The lower half of the shield is red, the trefoils silver. The eagle sticking out its tongue denotes divine power, the crescent shows participation in crusades...
...Dion Anthony, man's search for faith in a world where there is nothing in which to believe, where Christianity is dead. Dion, the creative artist, "pleads weakly for intense belief in anything." Billy Brown, on the other hand, is the symbol of what has replaced Christianity: a "visionless demi-god of our new materialistic myth--a Success." It is the mystery in these two "conflicting tides in the soul of man" that O'Neill wants to convey...
...Garden ice, and Hodder spent most of the time working on his up-and-coming Sophomore line and the constantly changing second line. As things stand now, this latter trio will probably start the evening as an all-St. Paul's group of Gordie McGrath at center with Demi Lloyd and Bob Cox on the wings. Dick Noone, who figured in one of the two Harvard goals at New Haven, and Bill Claflin, will probably see action before the end of the evening, however...