Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pops The Devil. When he was employed to write advertising at $75 per week, Steve Merrick (Roger Pryor) was unable to write his book. Living in a Greenwich Village flat with Anne (Sally Bates), who is trying to be a dancer, his numerous and very funny friends thwart the accomplishment of any worthy project. So Steve and Anne get married. She goes to dance in a cinemansion while he stays home, keeps house, writes the book. This scheme proves faulty, and they quarrel and separate; she neglects to tell him they are about to have issue. Meeting again-after Steve...
...social drama Up Pops The Devil is thin stuff, but as a comedy it is eminently successful. Albert Hackett, one of the two authors, does excellently in the part of a gin-witted journalist, saving a generous helping of the funny lines for himself. Learning that Miss Bates had left Mr. Pryor without informing him of the baby's imminence, he ingenuously inquires "Don't they tell fathers any more...
Roger Pryor will be remembered as the kinky-headed, bashful husband of last season's Apron Strings. Up Pops The Devil affords him another chance to play the part of a puzzled, naive young man, establishing him as a first rate juvenile. Sally Bates, who has had dealings with the Theatre Guild, carries off the honors for gracious and adult acting...
...remaining four are of lesser timber. "Holiday in Buenos Aires" describes that city in the sixties. "The Devil in Pago Chico" is the tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites...
...Hatfield-McCoy feuds of the Pine Mountains of Kentucky 50 years ago, son of famed Anderson (''Devil Anse") Hatfield (died 1921, past 80), cousin of West Virginia's Senator Henry Drury Hatfield; of a brain ailment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was said to have been fired at 300 times, hit once...