Word: satanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heaven, the people have to get past the Devil. The Devil wears red trousers and horns, but it is easy to see what he really is. He is a sporting blood, a race-track Satan, a ginmill Beelzebub; he has a bottle of red-eye liquor in his hand and is not stingy with his drinks. The Wayworn Traveler, the Pilgrim of Faith, the Troubled Soul, the Poor Blind Girl, the Pilgrim of Hope, the Widow and her Children and the Bedridden Woman all get past him safely. Walking up to St. Peter's throne, they sing "Nobody Knows...
...Wayward Girl. She comes toward Heaven drinking out of the bottle he has given her, very gay in her demeanor. When she gets to Heaven, they turn her out. She whispers "Too late!" and goes down to the Devil. He also gets the Hypocrite, a housewife who follows Satan and wears his flowers while singing "I'm on My Way to Heaven." The Devil keeps her dancing. Finally, the Pilgrim of Determination marches past the Devil, singing "I'm Going Through." When she reaches the throne, the Negro audiences at Heaven Bound shout loudly. The choir of Saints...
Next move of Satan is to create "from the most lurid infernal material" Francesco Saverio Nitti and make him Prime Minister of Italy. Under Nitti Bolshevism almost strangles Fascism, but God the Father in the nick of time sends Hero Garibaldi in a dream to Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. Counseled by Garibaldi, aided by Mussolini, d'Annunzio rushes to the rescue of the Roman Victory, severs her chains and leads her triumphant to Fiume...
...Satan's last stand is made when he replaces Nitti as Prime Minister with the still more sulphureous and infernal Giovanni Giolitti. Bolshevism is about to seize Italy once more. In this supreme emergency the Unknown Soldier descends from Heaven, rushes to the aid of Il Duce and Fascism, and the glorious March to Rome is planned...
...Colonel Satan. Booth Tarkington has turned back to the mood of his first best seller, Monsieur Beaucaire, a slender novelette which became a play and afterward a cinematographic vehicle for the late Rudolph Valentino, as a source for this romantic costume melodrama about Aaron Burr. Unfortunately, that mood is not recaptured, probably not recapturable, for the inspiration of Monsieur Beaucaire, of its swagger and dandyism, was youth, and in Colonel Satan there is no youth and no reality except a shadow of the personal bad luck of the courageous man who wrote it. Author of a dozen engaging novels...