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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...
...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...
Oklahoma. In a Democratic primary runoff, Thomas Pryor Gore was nomi- nated for Senator, onetime Representative (1913-17) William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray for Governor over rich but politically inexperienced opponents. Nominee Gore, accidently blinded as a child, entered the Democratic party via Populism and Texas, was Oklahoma's first Senator (1907-21). Defeated because of his anti-War position, he continued to live in Washington, practiced law there, lobbied a little. In the November election he will be opposed by Republican Senator William Bliss Pine who was politically handicapped this year when an enormous gusher came...
...Democratic trend has been clearly indicated by the party's Senatorial nominees in recent primaries: James Hamilton Lewis in Illinois, Robert Johns Bulkley in Ohio, Thomas Pryor Gore in Oklahoma, Gilbert Monell Hitchcock in Nebraska, Alexander Simpson in New Jersey and Sedgwick Kistler in Pennsylvania...