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...remarkable bit of prophecy by Shaw. Shotover is a man in his 'dotage,' past much use to society save as a deflater of current heroes and notions, but still with his wits very much about him. Shotover is Shaw. The Copley people have seen this, and have had Philip Bourneuf, who plays Shotover, made-up as an amazing facsimile of G.B.S. Seeing and hearing the wise and pungent comments come out of the familiar countenance gives them an additional kick. Mr. Bourneuf is not new to Shaw, having appeared in "Androcles and the Lion" on Broadway two years...
Despite a poor choice in Barrie's gaslight comedy, the production was good. Encased in an excellent set by Paul Morrison, Philip Bourneuf, Ernest Truex, Richard Waring, and Eva Le Gallienne went through the vintage-piece with professional mien. Truex, as Alick Wylie, the old Scotchman, is a funny little man in any accent. Eva Le Gallienne, contrasting the prevailing brogue with a gaudy, if inaccurate, French accent, had most of the good lines and used them all for at least five rounds of applause. June Duprez, as the "woman who always knows" is not as plain a wench...
Current convention for producers of Shaw plays is to dress up the protagonist in whiskers to resemble George Bernard Shaw. Thus disguised, Actor Philip Bourneuf talks his way brilliantly through the heroically talky role of Sir Arthur Chavender. No drunken skipper, but a tired, shilly-shallying Prime Minister, Sir Arthur is discovered, when On the Rocks begins, fiddling aimlessly about the interior of No. 10 Downing Street while an angry mob howls in the streets outside. Halfway through Act I, he receives a visit from a mysterious Lady in Grey (Estelle Winwood) who whisks him away to a sanatorium...
Jessie C. Bourneuf, of Chestnut Hill, vice-president of the Association marshalled the undergraduates...
...Philip Bourneuf, again showing his superiority over the rest of the group, gives a singularly sensitive performance of the affectionate Segard, but despite this, one fails to feel the sadness that should be his, but rather the joy and expectation of Therese and Bastien. To Miss Fitzpatrick and Francis Cleveland belong the more intriguing roles; to Bourneuf, the kudos for better execution...