Word: cordoba
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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...
...scene is an American artist's studio in Paris. The plot, an effort to show that love can regenerate the wayward. Pedro de Cordoba is the artist; Doris Kenyon, the model who loved him so hard she died. Presumably he forswore, thereafter, his failings and proceeded to the creation of manifold masterpieces...
...Pedro de Cordoba, cast as the triumphant Trent, plays with a fine technique but without humor and the indispensable grand mannerisms of a pirate hero. The ferocity of the crew and the fine feminine helplessness of Carroll McComas are wholly satisfactory...