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...Bismarck among them is clear. It would be too much to expect a Bismarck in every generation.... It was taken for granted that the world was marked out by Providence for exploitation by the European white man and that the principle of every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost was natural law.... The rise of Japan, the Adua disaster, the Boxer rising, none of these epoch-making events really opened the eyes of Europe...
Faust contains not just great lyrical speech, but ditties and doggerel, not just shadowy metaphysics but bright worldly wisdom, not just a welter of incident but a web of dreams, not just a prologue about stagefolk but another between the Devil and God. There are archangels along with procuresses, chunky peasants with symbolical wraiths, tavern songs and unearthly choruses, the kind of poem that gave Schubert Gretchen's spinning song, the kind of dialectic that prefigures Shaw's "Scene in Hell." It is among all this that Goethe propels his chief characters, Faust and his tempter-companion Mephistopheles...
...DEVIL'S ADVOCATE at the Colonial: Running through February 18. Stars Leo Genn, Sam Levine, and Edward Mulhare. Evenings at 8:15, Wednesday and Saturday matinees...
Hitherto unreliable sources have issued the unconfirmed report that Beat the Devil is a lampoon of The Maltese Falcon. Now there may be some who hate the thought of that picture being spoofed, and others who feel it needs no spoofing, but they can simply regard Beat the Devil as a general satire on Hollywood's preoccupation with undercover men. At any rate, this is one motion picture not to be taken seriously...
Which is about as close as Beat the Devil comes to having a point. It's a sprawling, funny film, reminiscent of the good old days when our Movie Industry was alive. It might pay to forget those grand resolutions about buckling down for the new semester. The term can just as well go to pot while there's a good movie around...