Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from you is ice." Up Pops the Devil (Paramount). Novel-writing is a career which the cinema often shows accompanied by domestic disagreements. It takes effect as an irritant in this one after Steve Merrick (Norman Foster) has given up his job to produce a book while his wife (Carole Lombard) supports him by acting in a revue. Painful results: Anne Merrick is pursued by a publisher, Steve Merrick makes expensive gestures toward a pretty neighbor. Pregnancy is presently established as a motive for reunion. What makes Up Pops the Devil as amusing in film as it was recently...
Dean Williams was 15 when he quit school to take a job as printer's devil on the Boonville (Mo.) Topic at 70 cents a week. In 1908 he persuaded the University to let him set up an experimental school. He has been its dean ever since, "the university president who never went to college...
...Dalai Lama ordered an automobile and a Chinese chauffeur. To get it from Darjeeling to Lhasa, corps of coolies, 30 strong, were stationed along the mountain passes, where no roads exist, to carry the car when it could not be driven. Now other Tibetans can buy "devil wagons" without sacrilege...
...Devil in the Mind is a Russian play by Leonid Andreyev (He Who Gets Slapped, The Waltz of the Dogs). First produced by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1914, it tells the very abstruse story of a scientist (Leo Bulgakov, longtime member of the Moscow Art Theatre) who is in love with the wife (Mrs. Leo Bulgakov) of a novelist (Bruce Elmore...
...Bulgakov has been previously warned that his profound cerebrations will unseat his reason, that he has ''a little devil in his mind." A prime symptom: His astounding fondness for a caged orangutan which he subjects to a minute character-analysis. After his pet orangutan dies and Mr. Bulgakov pays a visit to the novelist's wife, up pops the devil. The scientist feigns madness (a circumstance which will extenuate his crime), kills the lady's husband with a very heavy ash tray. Then follows Mr. Bulgakov's big scene, with a stage entirely to himself...