Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cordoba Saw City...
...expected the comedy was carefully and admirably prepared. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, surely our leading stage and off-stage husband and wife, had the leads. Henry Travers, Pedro de Cordoba and other familiar faces rounded out the cast. Since the play was written so many years ago, it was wisely staged in the fashion of that day, and has become, within the lifetime of the author, a costume play...
CANDIDA-George Bernard Shaw receives a brilliant interpretation by Katherine Cornell, Richard Bird and Pedro de Cordoba in what is one of the few plays that must not be missed...
...inspect the early craftsmanship of Shaw. Had he become old fashioned, his early ideas antiquated in the burst of bright new brainstorms which his very ideas had incited? The curtain went up on the first special matinee of Candida, disclosed Katherine Cornell in the title role, Pedro de Cordoba, Clare Eames, Richard Bird and Ernest Cossart in her support; went down on one of the few notable productions of the season. Shaw's ideas in the play were familiar. But Shaw knew his people must not be simply puppets of protest against a world's uncertainty. He made...
...poet the hero of the performance. As played by Richard Bird, a young Englishman who came with Havoc (TIME, Sept. 15), even the customarily brilliant performance of Katherine Cornell was slightly shaded in comparison. Miss Eames, Mr. de Cordoba and Mr. Cossart completed one of the soundest and most dextrous casts it is the playgoer's fair fortune to contemplate...