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Beginning with the actress, for whom he finds a legal loophole through which she may escape her present engagement and act in Macbeth, and with the author, whom he provides with an unpublished novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Lucy prepares to offer them all their hearts' desires???at the price of shame. He even convinces the host's mistress that she is in love with him. Labored conclusion of The Devil Passes: people behave decently because something, perhaps God, makes them do so. Naturally, the superior portion of Playwright Levy's comedy occurs prior to the final section in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 18, 1932 | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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