Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Hitler's aerial Blitzkrieg became a reality, the English theatre was in the dumps. Last week, as Nazi bombers swarmed over London, theatrical tills rang loudly again. Going strong were revivals like the Devil's Disciple with Robert Donat, Dear Octopus with aging Marie Tempest. Viewed tepidly by critics, cheered loudly by audiences was Clare Boothe's anti-Nazi comedy Margin for Error, which opened a fortnight ago. Most popular of the musicals was Shepherd's Pie, which after ten months was still turning customers away. Included in the show is a pageant involving Elizabeth...
...Negro Tom Williams, Editor White's friend, who was thought to be dangerous because he talked wildly, but who was just a night owl seeing too much going on under Emporia's placid surface-"just interested in knowing why men strayed and women fell and how the devil kept his fires going...
...Sunland, Calif., Church Member William Doak advertised a revival at Evangelist Harry O. Anderson's Baptist Church by dressing up like the devil, picketing the church. He paraded with a sign: "Anderson's program unfair to me and my friends. This institution entices my servants away. Local No. 666, Union of Amalgamated Beelzebubs...
...respect to an intimation from the French Embassy last year, Warner Brothers withdrew its Devil's Island from circulation. Paramount's Beau Geste, investigating in the African Foreign Legion another aspect of their Empire which Frenchmen do not like to talk about, was barred by Canada from Francophile Quebec. Last week, as Devil's Island reappeared in the U. S., Beau Geste was advertised in Quebec...
...Witnesses' own radio station, WBBR in Brooklyn, and 140-odd others feature transcribed Rutherford lectures on such subjects as: "Is Hell Hot?", "The Keys to Heaven," "Where are the Dead," "The End of the World." Sample quote: "Religion, being an invention of the Devil, turns men away from...