Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More, than half a million Americans during the past year have been bewitched by the Devil. This particular Devil is a jovial old party who wears a rumpled dinner jacket over his generous paunch, and sports no horns or tail. His glance, though sometimes leering, is never demoniac, and he talks about Heaven and Hell with a twinkle, like a fat, fond uncle...
...Devil's name is Charles Laughton, and he speaks of Heaven and Hell in the 50-year-old words of George Bernard Shaw. Next week, as Laughton brings Shaw's Don Juan in Hell on its third trip into Manhattan for an eight-week run, he enjoys the satanic satisfaction of a man who has confounded the experts, given a new theatrical trend a tremendous boost, and turned the old pastime of reading aloud into a booming big business...
...audiences throughout the U.S.-in Oakland, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, Syracuse and Williamsport, Pa.-have been eating it up. Businessmen and bobby-soxers, college students and clubwomen have jammed theaters and auditoriums and high-school gymnasiums to hear the Devil and Don Juan swap epigrams and arguments. As the grosses mounted, the show-business weekly, Variety, headlined: "STICKS OUTSHINE BROADWAY...
Philip Bourneuf takes the part of Lamberto, Pirandello's chorus and sarcastic commentator on the proceedings. His vague, devil-may-care attitude is amusingly played, though it contrasts somewhat to his dull, aphoristic remarks on the relativity of truth. The minor characters are all stylized portraits, and are played by the Brattle players purely for laughs. Outstanding among theme were Cavada Humphrey, Jerry Kilty, and Catherine Huntington...
Francois Mauriac, like his English cousin-in-letters, Graham Greene, is a connoisseur of corruption. A Roman Catholic, he believes that evil is as real as sunshine, and that man must learn to look the Devil in the face. In this new book, Mauriac's U.S. publishers have brought together two of his short novels. Though The Enemy was first printed in 1935 and The Weakling only last year, there is good reason for putting them side by side: both have as their theme the vulnerability of innocence...