Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the Devil (by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz; produced by Messrs. Shubert). When Between the Devil was floundering through New Haven and Philadelphia tryouts last October, its plot concerned an exuberant Englishman (Jack Buchanan.) who married two girls at once simply because he loved them both. After two months of meditation the producers decided that such wantonness would never go down, so Jack Buchanan was allowed wife No. 2 only because he thought No. 1 was lost in a shipwreck. Unfortunately for the show, this unworkable narrative contrivance does not go down so well either, but the music...
...Panama, he saw a "dare-devil," acting on a wager, light his cigar from a candle on the high altar of the Cathedral Church of San Juan de Dios, while 50 priests were conducting mass before 3,000 communicants. The sacrilege precipitated riots in which many persons were killed...
Born contemporaries, the two poets are, in most things else, remote relations. Irish MacNeice finds Iceland interesting chiefly as one more queer spot in which to wonder what the devil he is doing there. Sometimes he tries to give a laughless explanation...
...Between the Devil" is a light-hearted musical comedy, urbane and sophisticated, but innocent of satire and wit. Humorous explosives are prepared with care, but as a rule they fizzle instead of firing. Howard Dietz's book is rather flat, both in incident and dialogue, but in ample compensation it does serve as a vehicle for some very pleasant songs, an actor and two actresses of considerable charm, handsome sets, and some amusing byplay...
...Francisco pressagent might well have added that when a fair is over there is frequently the devil to pay. For as often as not World's Fairs result in thumping deficits.* Last week, World Fair planners the world around had reason to ponder this fact, for one World's Fair (Paris) closed for the winter thumpingly in the red, and two others (New York and San Francisco) passed milestones in careers which they expect to turn out in equally thumping profits...