Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keith-Albee--"Satan in Sables...
Homer did his best for Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania...
...Satan in Sables. Good old cinema staple is hereby rewoven into a routine romance of Paris. The presence of Lowell Sherman, lurid villain of many a legitimate production (and of D. W. Griffith's Way Down East), is the only unusual feature. He plays a Russian millionaire on the loose in the French capital. There is the usual sweet and simple cocotte from Montmartre to enthrall him. If you like Hm on the stage, you will approve him in this movie-if you like the movies...
...troubles, of Soviet inquiries and insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...
...last hypocrisy to ensure comfort in old age. The rhetorical, mock-modest manner of his memoirs, which he published to a wide audience in 1811, indicate the complete hypocrite -a varlet of guile and gusto to whom a naive generation quite naturally credited unnatural sins and the comradeship of Satan. Poet Frost, in a preface to the reissued memoirs, would place Burroughs beside Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin to complete the evidence that our young country grew all kinds of fine flowers...