Word: duan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performances of the evening the playing of Peg Entwistle as Ellie Duan was the most interesting. When the play opened upon its strange first scene, the room like a ship's cabin in Heartbreak House, Ellie Dunn was a living character. Before the play was half over she had turned from a young and attractive girl with her own personality to a type hard and cold and self-seeking. And when the play ended she was again become a living personality. It was this transition which Illustrated most exactly the difference between Shaw's characters and his types...