Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devil to Pay (Goldwyn). The millions of young U. S. women whose admiration has made Ronald Colman the most important male star in pictures should find this almost perfect, because it is very long. It is a flippant and debonair little piece, written to order by Frederick Lonsdale. It exists for its manner, its atmosphere of "nice" people, its flashes of wit-Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake...
...Erwin, Wasey Agency took plane to his 64,000-acre ranch at Carrizozo, N. Mex. There to ride horseback, there also to work on future advertising layouts in his cinemagnificent home which contains marble floors and doors transplanted from Chicago's oldtime Palmer House. Onetime office-devil of his father's country newspaper at Lapeer, Mich., Adman Kudner has been a concert singer, police reporter, magazine contributor, versifier, political writer. Framed over his desk is his favorite definition of advertising, a quotation from Fred Patzel, 1926 World Champion Hog Caller: "You've got to have appeal...
...Manhattan. A Dutchman struggling against storm and wind to round the Cape of Good Hope once swore that he would make it if he had to keep sailing until the Day of Judgment. The Devil overheard him, condemned him to just such a fate unless he could find a woman who would love him faithfully. There after every seventh year the Dutchman was permitted to go ashore to hunt a liberator. But the rest of the time he wearily sailed the seas until all the Norseland came to know of the white-faced wanderer and his phantom ship with...
...POPS THE DEVIL-Young marriage problems with an icing of smart wisecracks...
Texas has Strap Buckner, who found nobody could stand up to his fist. He enjoyed knocking people down, finally got a bit beyond himself and took on the Devil. After that encounter all he could say was: "Skin for skin, skin for skin...