Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen of Sheba's Nightmare is a worldly-wise little story in which the Queen is persuaded by Satan that the rapturous "Song" that King Solomon has just sung to her is the same one he has sung to every other woman. This fable of woman's mingled love and suspicion of flattery makes one wish that Author Russell's artistic powers were up to the standard of his intelligence. The moral (for ladies only): Better be fooled by a man than put wise by the Devil...
...these nights just off Broadway on the stage of Manhattan's 46th Street Theater, but a sentimental Washington baseball fan who has bartered his soul for a .524 batting average gives every sign of welshing on the deal. To secure his investment in this "wife-loving louse," Satan calls in one of his ablest assistants, a flame-haired siren named Lola...
...once, Lola has failed to get what Lola wants, the same cannot be said of the audiences who pack the theater eight times weekly to cheer her efforts. As a seductress with a sense of humor, Lola may seriously disappoint her Satanic master in the play, but as the most incendiary star on Broadway, Gwen Verdon does fine by her real-life boss, Director George Abbott, a genius of the darkling hours often credited with a magic as mysterious as Satan...
...Faust sings, "A moi, Satan, à moi!" and throws his book into the fireplace. An electrician switches on a fan, which sends flame-colored paper streamers upward into sight of the audience. The basement maestro makes an abrupt pronouncement: "Up with him!" The stagehands lift the platform and Mephisto into the air. The audience first sees him sitting on the arm of the chair that screens the trapdoor, nonchalantly swinging his foot and cane. Meanwhile, behind the rear study wall. Marguerite (Soprano Nadine Conner) is climbing a narrow set of stairs to a platform, aided by a stagehand...
...Arletty are delightfully evil as the envoys, and Jacques Prevet's script and Marcel carne's direction make Cluny's defection from the diabolic cause later in the Picture seem natural enough-although the viewer may at first be left wondering if this is not just another evil ruse. Satan himself, played by Jules Berry, enters the feudal scene with gusto, elegant clothes, and a most attractive cackle of glee that make his part something out of the ordinary. His expert dematerializations are more to the credit of the cameraman...