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...what the Devil (Walter Huston) offers Jabez Stone (James Craig) for his soul. Beset by an unaccountable run of hard luck, the young New Hampshire farmer makes the hard bargain. For seven years (the term of his contract) he prospers. When his time is up, he begs Daniel Webster, the great Yankee lawyer (Edward Arnold), to save him. Daniel does...
This synthetic U.S. folk tale, a triumphant Yankee version of Faust, was invented by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (in a short story, The Demi and Daniel Webster). A ticklish job for adaptation to the screen, it has been handled with skill and good humor by Producer-Director William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur). All That Money Can Buy is definitely superior cinema...
...Daniel Webster had to trick the Devil into having any trial at all. Webster: "I never heard of you claiming American citizenship." Devil: ". . . Am I not spoken of, still, in every church in New England? . . ." Webster: "Then I stand on the Constitution! I demand a trial for my client...
...Hines album perhaps the best of a satisfying list including a couple of old Teddy Wilsons and Decca's third Gems of Jazz set, which may have escaped someone's notice over the summer. Victor has been producing a Duke Ellington coupling every week or two. 'Twas said Ben Webster's Kansas City tenor sax wouldn't fit in with the highly sophisticated Ellington arrangements, but Duke is building backgrounds for Ben to improvise against, and on "Just a-Settin' and a-Rockin'." Ben takes off to his heart's, and our car's content...
...Emerson '43, N. N. Griffith '42, J. S. Jillson '44, R. B. Kent '44, W. C. Palson '44, F. W. Phinney '43, A. J. Pifer '44, C. H. Robbins '42, K. T. Rogers '42, J. Jopka '43, G. H. Stewart '42, H. C. Tuttle '43, D. K. Webster '44, R. J. Mead '44, T. Coggeshall '44, J. S. Browne '44, W. S. Ellis '44, S. H. Noon '43, S. S. Poland '44, G. J. Lyons '42, F. C. Scott '43, W. A. Rich '44, E. J. Sullivan '44, R. L. Waugh '43, R. H. Feltner '44, R. B. Houghton...