Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent a company on tour. Headed by Basil Sidney, the players are already operating in important cities; Baltimore witnessed their opening, Washington, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Toronto and more will have glimpses of their wanderings. He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev, Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, and The Devil's Disciple by G. B. Shaw compose their repertory. They give all of these at each stand-time permitting...
...Jeffrey quarreled; Jeffrey went into the Tank Corps, though not to France, and collected material for a bitter novel, Squads Right About. Then Inez, after making up with him again, eliminated him conclusively in favor of a pimply young man named Todd?and Jeffrey went to the modern devil of our age, who is not a merry companion, for a while. But he mended himself with courage and the memories of an old and youthful content?snow-water and the unguent of irony?a gorgeous fistfight released him from certain delusions?Joan's path crossed his again, as it always...
...matter boils down to a question of Art as an expression of national impulse or of national consideration. At present the impulse remains financially dominant. The American public has evinced an increasing preference for the Devil over the deep blue sea of censorship...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?Bernard Shaw, in an early play, awkwardly trying to treat the Revolutionary War as nonchalantly as he does morality. Roland Young as General Burgoyne carries off the play by his ability to say bitter things lightly...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?A play of the American Revolution by George Bernard Shaw. For two acts he writes as though George M. Cohan were at his very elbow. Then he settles down to satire, and laughter supplants the thunder of the melodrummer...