Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Pare Lorentz, 30, cinema-critic of the New York Evening Journal and Judge; and Sally Bates, 23, actress (An American Tragedy; Sweet Adeline; Up Pops the Devil); in Oswego...
...Nice, France, Charles Rancurel, sent to Devil's Island as an incorrigible burglar in 1915, who escaped in 1924. was recaptured in 1926 and who escaped again in 1928, walked into an almost certain trap at his mother's doorstep. Arrested, he cried: "Let me see mother just once before she dies, and I'll be satisfied! I am through escaping...
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77) was no flower of Southern chivalry but a tough offshoot of Tennessee pioneers. He talked like a poor white; it is doubtful if he ever read a book on tactics; but he fought like the devil. Biographer Lytle, strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders...
...Theatre and as understudy to the leading lady in a road company of Strictly Dishonorable. She has a mild Southern accent which she keeps from becoming unpleasant, does her best to be charming and ingenuous in her messy role. The novelist is played by Roger Pryor (Up Pops the Devil). He also lets fresh air into the play, prevents it from getting too blue around the edges...
...want to read a good imitation of a serious novel, try this one. It has many earmarks of what passes for worth; a pioneer panorama, noble savages, slick Manhattanites and Chicagoans, "frankness," a (pseudo) devil-may-care style. Author Tiffany Thayer knows how to butter his bread, knows many a reader will put up with oleomargarine if it is spread thick enough...