Word: discipleâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE???Bernard Shaw, in an early play, awkwardly trying to treat the Revolutionary War as nonchalantly as he does morality. Roland Young as General Burgoyne carries off the play by his ability to say bitter things lightly...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE???A play of the American Revolution by George Bernard Shaw. For two acts he writes as though George M. Cohan were at his very elbow. Then he settles down to satire, and laughter supplants the thunder of the melodrummer...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE???Early Shaw, revived by the Theatre Guild, and proving that early Shaw is a good deal better than most up-to-the-minute theatricalism. Shaw and Roland Young, as General Burgoyne, make even an English General seem suavely epigrammatic...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE???Theatre Guild revival of one of Shaw's early comedies that shows the Devil not so black as other people paint him. Roland Young remarkable as the only British general in history with a sense of humor...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE???A brilliant last act and Roland Young, as the cynical and disillusioned " Gentlemanly Johnny Burgoyne," give Bernard Shaw another success with one of his early plays...