Word: devil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interesting in this Benediktbeuren play is also the appearance of the Devil in the shepherd scene, where he endeavors through arguments and ridicule to counteract the effect of the Angels's annunciation of the Birth...
...written in Latin about 1200 A.D. and was discovered in a thirteenth century manuscript in the monastery of Benediktbeurer in southern Germany. In several respects it is unique. It has a long introduction, the Prophets' Play; Joseph has no lines to speak and Mary only one or two; the Devil appears to the shepherds in the field; and there is a long epilogue recounting events in Egypt...
...Devil to Pay. The artistic and intermittently successful Stagers have picked a particularly dull piece for their second try of the season (their first was A Man's Man, one of the best in town). They took a play from the Dutch dramatist, Herman Heijermans, a play that has been exceptionally successful in Holland...
...Michelman Joseph C. C. Woolley '29 First King Murray Pease '26 Second King D. W. Moreland '28 Third King F. Kent Smith '29 First Messenger Charles Hicks '29 Second Messenger W. A. MeCausland '29 Herod A. L. Dickson '27 First Shepherd Charles Leatherbee '29 Second Shepherd James Pates '28 Devil D. F. Robinson '26 Second Angel Mary Coperton Third Angel Constance Templeton
...have concert engagements in America and Australia for several years, and am obliged to carry them out. I left Russia without a cent and found it necessary therefore to sell my soul to the devil. Yes, I sold it, and it is not my fault. As soon as I fulfill these contracts, I hope to be able to accept your invitation to come to Moscow and Leningrad...