Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tituba, a Negro servant (Madame Sul-Te-Wan), gets the Massachusetts housewives thinking about witches when she tells of devil dances she has witnessed in the jungle. Her tales excite a nervous child, Ann (Bonita Granville). who is punished for having a stolen book on witches. Ann gets even with Tituba by pretending to be bewitched. Then Ann's mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person...
...loser, Enrico Venturi of Italy, was an unshakable courage that enabled him to rise after a knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance...
...short, while the Student Union of Harvard deserves every credit for its work in improving conditions in Cambridge, it must remember that those who sup with the devil must use a long spoon...
...Devil's Playground (Columbia) lacks novelty of background, U. S. naval deep-sea work having been used before. Jack Dorgan (Richard Dix) is a diver who can stand more subaqueous pressure than anyone else at the San Diego base but blows up handsomely when he finds Bob Mason (Chester Morris) in over-close proximity to Mrs. Dorgan (Dolores Del Rio). After Mrs. Dorgan has told the truth about this situation, Jack goes out to rescue Bob who is wrecked in the submarine Nautilus at a depth of 300 ft. Barring some crude miniature shots, the sequences dealing with...
...companion picture, "The Hory Terror" is a foolish little comedy staring Jane Withers--that pudgy young she-devil. If it does nothing else, it explains Freddie Bartholomew's preference for Shirley Temple...