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This “spooky” story centers on a New Hampshire farmer who sells his sole to the Devil and is defended by Daniel Webster, a fictional version of the famous lawyer and orator. With themes of Patriotism, ...

Netanyahu looks like the devil. The resemblance is especially apparent in images from his youth. He is handsome and graceful, with a mellifluous voice. Watch him, a worldly man, bending in whispered ...

A supernatural character in a play deserves super-imaginative stage tricks. "We all had to sign a pledge not to give away how the magic illusions are done," says playwright Robert Schenkkan, whose new ...

RAILROADS The Devil & Dan’l Webster On a preinaugural demonstration of his new, light, low-gravity-center train, New Haven President George Alpert last week savored the unaccustomed compliments of 225 ...

Though 16 efforts at native opera have had premieres at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera House, horse operas (movie Westerns) remain preeminently the American taste. U. S. composers keep at it, however, ...