Word: fiendful
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Cincinnati's Fiend...
...circus. The rascally son of the privilege car's rascally proprietor unexpectedly returns from jail to take up counterfeiting. There are also various subplots which flow back and forth across a stage crowded with amusing, if too finely drawn, circus types-"razorbacks" (laborers), cootch dancers, a harmless dope fiend, a harmless kleptomaniac (funny William Foran, brother of the playwright and the man who telephoned "Mrs. Margolies" in The Front Page). High point of the drama comes with the second act curtain, when the circus rallying cry of "Hey, rube!" goes up as the train is attacked...
Satan's Last Stand. At this Satan is "greatly worried." Summoning an arch-devil, His Infernal Majesty commands , this fiend to fly to the Paris Peace Conference and enter the body of President Woodrow Wilson. Soon the President, possessed by the archdevil,** works out a satanic scheme, has the Roman Victory put in irons, transported to Jugoslavia and chained to the Croatian rocks...
...Christ: either to be original at the risk of irreverence or heresy, or traditional without originality. On the whole he sticks close to the traditional. Exceptions: showing Christ as a young man wistfully watching the youths and maidens walking out together through the fields; making Judas an evident fiend, a bat-eared Apollyon. Best cut: Lazarus...
...able to convey something of an actual character to the part she played. She was won over by Richard not so much by her lack of insight, as by his extreme cleverness. She left the impression that she was a woman in the hands of a clever fiend rather than just a puppet. All in all, for a play that is given so infrequently, it was well worth seeing...