Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1937-Edited by Harry Hansen-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collection of 21 stories, notable for Stephen Vincent Benet's modern folk tale, The Devil and Daniel Webster (first prize), for Robert Coates's violent story, The Fury (third prize), for first-rate examples of the work of William March, Jesse Stuart, Robert Penn Warren...
...What devil proved by these days...
...sprayed about the rooms. On the 53rd floor of the Chrysler Building, Mr. Bedaux's office is done in weathered oak with a medieval monastery effect. According to Manhattan's World-Telegram this week, Mrs. Bedaux has said, "If Charles had horns he would be the Devil," and she used to appear sometimes at parties he gave in Greenwich Village in an apartment he leased under an assumed name, transforming it now into a Japanese, now into an East Indian or other exotic setting...
...Lunts would be good for Hollywood, Hollywood would probably not be very enjoyable for Alfred Lunt. He and his wife are theatre people through & through. Alfred Lunt has worked 30 to 40 weeks a year for 23 years in the theatre, but fears first nights as the devil fears holy water, worries over the size of the audience, suffers tearful agonies if there is a hint that his performance has not been up to his best. One of the consequent duties of faithful, bustling Lawrence Farrell, once his dresser, now his play manager, is to beguile Lunt out of these...
...attractive little devil isn't she," he said when asked why the club was started. "Why do you remember what she did in "The Little Colonel'," He had not seen the movie, however...