The Theatre: New Plays: May 5, 1923

The Devil's Disciple. Revolt against the accepted deities of mankind is as old as Prometheus and as new as Amory Elaine. Which may be one reason why The Devil's Disciple wears so well.

In Dick Dudgeon's case this revolt was largely due to a Puritan turn of mind. The narrow, selfish religion of his mother dominated his youth —he found his only escape from it in championing, with almost Calvinistic fervor, the single antagonist his mother both hated and feared, the Devil himself. By doing so he not only satisfied his native necessity...

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