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...Harvard Theatre Group will present G. B. Shaw's "Candida" Saturday night, May 10 in addition to the three performances already announced for May 8 and 9; publicity director Ralph Kennan '54 announced last night...
Harvard Theatre Group officials yesterday announced the substitution of George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" for Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" as their Regatta Weekend production...
After a Chicago revival of Shaw's Candida, the Daily News's Columnist Sydney J. Harris heaped eight paragraphs of praise on the play itself, on G.B.S., on Candida as his favorite Shaw heroine, on most of the players, and added kind words for the staging and the set. His review ended with a one-sentence stinger: "The title role is taken by Miss Olivia de Havilland, a motion picture actress." Tribune Critic Claudia Cassidy found Olivia "an interruption, nothing more." The verdict of the actress' 27-month-old son, Benjamin, made it unanimous: "The curtain goes...
...play holds up, despite several performers who cannot act in drawing-room comedy, one or two others who cannot act at all. As Constance, Katharine Cornell is engagingly Candida-like, but she substitutes charm for lightness, good nature for irony. Only Veteran Grace George, as Miss Cornell's worldly-wise Victorian mother, achieves the right worldly-wise Restoration urbanity...
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, by George Bernard Shaw (Arms and the Man, Candida, etc.) (June 18, 1898): "The fault of Shaw . . . is his lack of poetry . . . and the critic or satirist who is not a bit of a poet cannot reasonably hope to win renown as a dramatist...