Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With McCoocy's soul up for option, the play must have its bidders: St. Michael, who make a brief but irreproachable entrance in the third act as a bright center-stage light; and Baron Nicholas de Balbus, the devil's advocate who attempts to corrupt the priest and his household. The ensuing battle between darkness and light is garnished with much theatrical hokum as lights go on, clocks stop, and furniture takes to the air. But despite the commotion, the final triumph of Good is a melodramatic inevitability...
...fantasy, The Wayward Saint may be excused for its reliance on the supernatural, but in same instances the author should have left more to the imagination. The playgoer must be prepared for sporadic visits by the devil's cohorts, Sebena, Serena, and Salambo. The first two are scantily-clothed nymphs, who do lusty dances in the priest's parlor under fittingly blue lights. The latter, Salambo, is a messenger dressed something like the Batman. If this trio is expendable, one could also make a case for the deletion of all God's little codgers, including two stuffed donkey...
...offspring about God. "We can tell them," she said, "that everyone believed at one time, and some people believe now, that there are two great powers in the world: a good power called God, who made the world and who loves human beings . . . and a bad power called the Devil, who is opposed to God and who wants people to be unhappy and bad. We can tell them that some people still believe this, but that most people now think there's not really a Devil...
...sends him back to Vinca. In a haystack, the boy and girl fumble at love and, as the summer wanes and they prepare to return to Paris, realize that they have sadly closed the door on childhood. Director Claude Autant-Lara, who covered somewhat the same ticklish territory in Devil in the Flesh (TIME, March 21, 1949), this time has produced not so much a pathetic portrait of adolescence as a melancholy valentine to the memory of those troubling years...
...great conquistador. His Cortés is a hypnotic leader who can inspire lukewarm, greedy fighters to swashbuckle down to their job. Exploring the inner man as well, Author Baron describes Cortés as a Byron turning Napoleonic, as a would-be servant of God becoming the Devil's disciple, slaughtering some 250,000 Aztecs in the famed siege of Tenochtitlan. Remembered for a superior World War II novel (From the City, from the Plough), Novelist Baron has switched easily from Sten guns to harquebuses, splashes his pages with just the right mixture of bravery and bravura...