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...satiric wit of George Bernard Shaw is entertaining Copley audiences this week in two plays, and proving equally delightful in both. In "Great Catherine", a farce in four scenes, the playwright pokes fun at the foibles of the court of Catherine the Great, while in "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet", he transports the audience to the American Great West to watch the trial of a horse thief and incidentally to listen to a philosophical disquisition on life...
...trial of a horse thief may bring into play the entire range of human emotions is demonstrated in "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet." Mr. Clive in the title role experienced most of those emotions himself, and whether he was jeering wickedly at God and Man or offering to marry the woman whom the court thought too soiled even to take an oath on the Bible, he carried the audience breathlessly along with him. The play is labelled "A Religious Tract in Dramatic Form", but although the description is just enough, it ought not to be allowed to prejudice anyone...
Litterateurs shrieked with dismay when President Roosevelt tried to force simplified spelling down the throat of the Congressional Record. Esperanto was tortured to death with fiendish glee by the barbed criticisms of philologists. And yet Mr. Eurique Blanco, writing in the international Book Review, has tempted the lightning of such a champion as Mr. Mencken by declaring that English is not "easy to learn" and that before if can become a world language its innate perversity must be destroyed...
Senor Enrico Blanco, of the University of Wisconsin, takes, up the cudgels in behalf of Spain. Not all inhabitants of the country of Cervantes and Charles the Fifth are desperate villains with knives under their cloaks, and "Carramba!" in their teeth. Furthermore, there are Spaniards who are not swarthy, and a great many who are not pirates...
Altogether, Mr. Glynn-Ward and Senor Blanco make out a strong case against the commonplace stereotypes of modern romances. If some patriot American critic would only file a protest against the poor-but-honest serving girl and the white-haired general of industry who invariably appears in the middle of the morning in full dress, the indictment would be complete...