Word: alls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the revised Geneva had its world première in Toronto. However topical, the play is not so much straight political satire as one more Shavian exercise in deflating the human race, one more proof that the world's most famed vegetarian is intellectually a cannibal. Shaw...
The revised ending of Geneva brings the news that Hitler's troops have invaded Poland. Gloats Der Führer: "While you have been talking, my army has been doing." He turns to Mussolini for help. "Do you suppose," barks Il Duce, "that I am going to ruin my...
Anti-fascist in a typically Shavian way, Geneva makes fools rather than villains of the dictators. For that matter, it pretty well makes fools of everybody in the play. But at 83, G. B. S. is no longer foolproof himself. Despite some brilliant thrusts, he bumbles on far too long...
Laid in the German consulate of "an American city," Margin for Error dishes up a consul (admirably played by Otto L. Preminger) who-to go easy on him-steals, lies, blackmails, double-crosses and is all ready for murder. It requires, indeed, a whole act to take inventory of his...
The sleuthing that follows takes a different and amusing turn. A Jewish cop (Sam Levene), who has been appointed by a prankish mayor to guard the consul, sees that he is in a tight place. Unless the murderer is caught at once, all the Jews in the Reich will suffer...