Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn, St. Luke's German Evangelical Reformed Church was about to move to new quarters. But before moving, the Rev. Benney Benson "deconsecrated" the old building with a service of his own devising (among other things, he threw a bottle of ink at an effigy of the devil). Reason: the athletic club which had bought the building planned to set up a bar on the premises...
...story is a modern contest between good & evil, with Morgan acting as a kind of celestial scorekeeper. The chief character is a retired judge who is writing a book about Athens during its best days. A saintly Mr. Chips wrestling with the devil instead of the Lower Form, he prays nightly for help in his work ("God, make me fit to write"), seeks, in his historical research, a "timeless common humanity" to unite Greek ideals with the wearier 20th Century. What he finds, at first, is a modern tempter with a fat bankroll and a skinny conscience, who tries...
...Devil's Envoys (Paulvé; Superfilm), which is based on the medieval romance Les Visiteurs du Soir, is a French film about a minstrel (Alain Cuny) and his mistress (Arletty) who travels disguised as his brother. One evening they turn up among the entertainers at a small French chateau. These unusually talented musicians are capable of magic, as well as music; they are emissaries of the Devil (Jules Berry). Their business in the world is to seduce immortal souls through the transient flesh...
...minstrel goes to work on the baron's lovely daughter and becomes entangled in his own toils. His "brother," sticking more faithfully to duty, reveals her sex both to the devout Baron (Ledoux) and to his worldly prospective son-in-law. When the plot gets too complicated, the Devil himself turns up, disguised as a very nasty gentleman, and complicates matters still further. Arletty's lovers are certified for Hell; but Hell's unfaithful minstrel and his sweetheart, thanks to the white magic of True Love, fight the Devil to a draw...
...been paced so as to keep the audience laughing most of the time, and in this Evans, has been supremely successful. The dream scene in which the original Don Juan appears and brings out the philosophical content of the play in a long discussion with the Devil, the Commendatore, and Donna Ana, has been cut. In the light of the Evans interpretation of the play, that is all that can be done. The scene is only occasionally funny and hardly dramatic...