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Right You Are (If You Think You Are). Playwright Luigi Pirandello, like the Devil, seduces the idle. After years of temptation, the Theatre Guild succumbed last week to spending some unengaged time and talent on special matinees of a cerebral shadow dance wherein "the Italian Shakespeare" divides a flighty family against itself and lets in village gossips to decide who is crazy. There is no one crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another...
...Sever is the one Harvard undergraduate who did not go to see the orchidaceous Greta Garbo in "Flesh and the Devil", because of the rumor that the film would be censored after the police department had had a chance to feast its eyes on the square-head's curves. Robert Sherwood said it was a good thing that the smooth Swede was married to John Gilbert before the scenes were shot. It was really rather a Puritan precaution, we hear, but it may serve to raise their divorcing average...
...hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week, one C. E. Miller let it be known that in some white gypsum hills near Estelline, Tex., he had found a colony of extraordinary creatures, captured...
...furtive bands, then in leagues more potent for evil than the once dread Maffia. What were they? With a definition the author rips off the cloak of Devildom and leaves his subject naked as a pair of tongs: "A sorcerer (or witch) is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends." Never mind the magic, what did the witches and sorcerers indisputably do? Their deeds fill this bulky volume?with a bedlam of blasphemy, with a scourge of poisoning, kidnaping and organized crime that swept Europe, with an orgy of self indulgence...
...through the air on broomsticks. They smeared each other with an irritant ointment, danced and leaped high with sticks between their legs, thereby exciting themselves for the orgy which closed all witches "Sabbats" (Congresses). Withal, they zealously professed a kind of religion, a perverted Gnostic creed that postulated the Devil equal part-creator of the universe with God and more ready to reward his adorants with the things of this world than was the self-styled "jealous" Father...