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...Marquis and Marquise de Vogüé were almost legendary figures. He held one of the oldest titles, owned one of the biggest fortunes in France. Like his illustrious forebears, he was a fastidious man of the world, loved to travel, to hunt on his vast estates, to entertain lavishly in his turreted ancestral home, the Chateau de la Verrerie. Dressed in exclusive Dior gowns, his wife was every inch the grande dame, and on occasion, as she accompanied her financier husband on business trips, she helped close many a solid financial deal herself...
...Giovanni seemed every bit as wicked to Shaw as a real-life Don Juan seems to a headmistress. "I hate performers who debase great works of art," he summed up."I long for their annihilation: if my criticisms were flaming thunderbolts, no prudent Life or Fire Insurance Company would entertain a proposal from any singer within my range ..." Shaw on Music is afire with annihilating invective. He comments, for instance, on the "surprising power of the average Italian chorister to destroy all stage illusion the moment he shambles on the scene with his blue jaws, his reach-me-down costume...
...made a brave effort last week to do more than merely entertain. It tried to say something. In its handling of the news and its treatment of drama, it tried to reach beyond fact to what was significant, and beyond fiction to what was meaningful. Unhappily, on all three levels-news, drama and new summer entertainment-TV fell ingloriously on its face...
...show does only a tiny part of what it is ballyhooed to do (entertain, educate, inform, cultivate, expose people "to the great ideas, the great achievements, the great history of man," enable people to understand one another and adequately replace the direct experience of reality with a TV camera lens), it should be at least great...
...abrupt enough; the macabre spirit wears off too early in the evening. The play's humor reaches its peak in the second act, when the freshly killed Bennett, his head covered with a lampshade, sways back and forth in the living room while the female Honeys entertain a guest. From this point on, the author's morbid inspiration slowly flickers out, and the humor of the last act consists largely of geographical jokes ("Sinning is in its infancy in Boston") and the standard Irish dialogue that is contributed by two standard Irish cops. Logically, the denouement could probably...