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...matter boils down to a question of Art as an expression of national impulse or of national consideration. At present the impulse remains financially dominant. The American public has evinced an increasing preference for the Devil over the deep blue sea of censorship...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?Bernard Shaw, in an early play, awkwardly trying to treat the Revolutionary War as nonchalantly as he does morality. Roland Young as General Burgoyne carries off the play by his ability to say bitter things lightly...
...wanted him to be charmingly wicked but to disgust him with the pleasant sins of life by throwing them at his head?a plot of which Alice had been cognizant from the first. The honest people were rogues, the scandalous ones merely natural? so he promptly went to the devil with supple Zimbule O'Grady and felt much better. In fact the tale ends with Harold on the way to becoming...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?A play of the American Revolution by George Bernard Shaw. For two acts he writes as though George M. Cohan were at his very elbow. Then he settles down to satire, and laughter supplants the thunder of the melodrummer...
Glenn Hunter (Merton of the Movies) is the only young American with any semblance of a reputation. Roland Young's glorious portrayal of General Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciples, now running in Manhattan, gives him a foothold somewhere below the niches of the famous. He may hoist himself upwards by other, more difficult performances. To those who rush with arguments regarding Leslie Howard, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacob Ben-Ami, Geoffrey Kerr, it need only be said that all of them first saw the sunlight and the footlights on the opposite side of the Atlantic...