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...Fool. They go at this God vs. the Devil narrative very seriously. The good man, who happens to be a minister, triumphs over the bad man. The poor profit by much charity in the course of things, and much morality is on parade. The play of the same name ran hundreds of performances in Manhattan and on the road. Therefore the theme must be of widespread interest. Though Edmund Lowe and his associates act intelligently, the pulse of the picture beats dully...
...outskirts of Tokyo-a city slowly rising from the ruins wrought by the seismic cataclysm of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.)-smoke burst into fire in a factory. Greedy, licking flames were fanned by a devil's wind and, within a day, a space of one square mile extending into the city lay black, scorching, smoking. More than 1,700 houses had been destroyed, nearly 10,000 people made homeless. Nobody was reported dead, but ten people were listed as missing, more than 100 injured and 50 children, separated during the fire from their parents, began...
...play from the pen of Zöe Akins. It has now completed the cycle and entered its final phase as a cinema. It proves itself flimsy film material. The story tells of a titled Englishwoman stranded in Manhattan with the alternative of going hungry or to the Devil. Corinne Griffith does as much as possible (a very great deal) to pick the story up and put it on its listless feet...
...Devil Within is one of those melodramas where the individual auditor is expected to curl up like a piece of burnt leather and crumble away with excitement. On the opening evening, professional observers refused to do this, owing to their long stern schooling in the mystery melodrama. The hide of an accomplished critic will not curl. Ordinary observers were reported to have curled slightly. In the last act, some of them even crumbled...
Alexander Woollcott?"Doubtless he [the author, Charles Horan, a cinema director] felt The Devil Within to be a bit thick for the movies, so he made it into a play...