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...scene in this that is not well photographed and Ronald Coleman and Ann Harding act as well as you would expect. Unfortunately, the charm that the director has taken such pains to put into Condemned is wasted because it is inappropriate. Proper picturization of the grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest man on Devil's Island...
...town near Los Angeles, marking cuts whenever the audience stopped laughing. Best shots: Lloyd's account of his love-affair with a girl whose picture he obtained from a photomaton machine that functioned faultily; the fight with the dope ring; getting the police commissioner's fingerprint. The Devil's Pit (New Zealand). None of the many cameras searching out strange races of the world has ever caught one in the process of creating its legends, yet it is easy for people who have never seen any Maoris to believe that these in The Devil...
...Austin (after hesitation): 'I'll give it. I hate a lawyer like the devil...
...funeral chants, and, at the other end of the scale, the futuristic rhythms of the band, but there is Porgy's sudden turn from prose recitation into a chant as he speaks early in the play, and Serena's prayer for the delirious Bess to Jesus, to "send the devil out of her like you used to do," with the rising refrain of "time and time again!" in which the others gradually join...
...very long ago a friend of mine- one of that fine, hearty type who believes in being a Yale man and shaming the devil-told me his troubles. He was far from satisfied with the way things were going presently at New Haven, or, for that matter, at any of the American colleges. We were all in a bad way. He had no particular criticism to make of the teaching; this did not greatly interest him. 'But undergraduates,' he held-and on this point he was positive-'are not the men they used...