The New Pictures, Apr. 21, 1941

The Devil and Miss Jones (RKO Radio). It is a jolt for any old-style tycoon with a jumpy stomach and a cracker-&-milk diet to pick up the morning paper and see that he has been hanged in effigy outside a big department store he can't recall owning. It is particularly hard for old John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), a bachelor so rich and powerful that his picture hasn't appeared in the newspapers for 20 years.

Moved to investigate his new-found property and ferret out the union leaders who hanged him, dyspeptic J. P. disguises himself...

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