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Repertory--"Captain Brassbound's Conversion", by Bernard Shaw, at 8.10: Reviewed in this issue...
Repertory--"Captain Brassbound's Conversion...
...Shaw, too, I always found easy, but Barrie was ever a teaser. I remember I learned my part in Captain Brassbound's Conversion in a few days, but how I had to struggle over Alicc-Sit-by-the-Fire. Alice is becoming more wonderful every day. I have my own listening-in set, and with head phones I can hear everything...
Some of his plays criticise the present social order and some of the socialists of today. Among the former is one that speaks of war as a science of attacking a weaker opponent and getting out of the way of a stronger. In "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good...