Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Particularly admirable are the subtle vocal inflections that Richardson brings to his role. It is into the clergyman's mouth that Shaw-leaving nothing to the audience-puts the play's message, albeit one hardly characteristic of a sermonizing minister: "This foolish young man boasted himself the Devil's Disciple; but when the hour of trial came to him, he found that it was his destiny to suffer and be faithful to the death. I thought myself a decent minister of the gospel of peace; but when the hour of trial came to me, I found that...
STRATFORD, Conn.-It would be folly to claim that The Devil's Disciple is one of Bernard Shaw's best plays, but he had a whale of a lot of fun writing it. A cast can have a great deal of fun playing it-as the Stratfordians are obviously doing this summer. And an audience can have a great deal of fun watching...
...leading character partly with the celebrated American actor Richard Mansfield in mind. Mansfield was the first man to introduce Shaw to American audiences, through his appearance in 1894 as Bluntschli in Arms and the Man, which lasted only a couple of weeks. Nothing daunted, however, Mansfield starred in The Devil's Disciple as soon as it was finished. If Shaw enjoyed writing the play, he doubly enjoyed having written the play-for Mansfield's production turned out to be Shaw's first theatrical success anywhere in the world. It gave him financial security sufficient to let him take...
That did it. In three cities-Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry-Catholics took to the streets in protest. In the ensuing riots, four men were killed and at least 200 injured, including 100 soldiers. "If I'd been the devil himself, trying my best to cause more trouble here," said a Belfast journalist, "I couldn't have chosen a better time to jail Bernadette." The specter of more open fighting loomed once again over Northern Ireland's tense cities...
...angriest attacks to date against Catholic marriage laws is made by Author Morris L. West (The Devil's Advocate), a divorced and remarried Catholic, and Robert Francis, an Anglican, in their new book, Scandal in the Assembly. The book appears to owe a considerable debt to a scholarly but not widely circulated 1967 work, Divorce and Remarriage, by a U.S. canonist, Monsignor Victor J. Pospishil. But it dwells more extensively on the individual injustices created by the incredibly complex code of canon law on marriage. Indeed, the authors charge that present Roman Catholic marriage laws are "bad laws, derogatory...