Word: everyboy
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Playwright Shaw's (Bury the Dead, The Gentle People) story of Everyboy is far too familiar to yield large stage dividends; simply told, however, it might have possessed warmth and humanity. But besides fancying it up as a constantly interrupted dream, Shaw has put frills on the dialogue, lace pants on the sentiments, and- for extra tone - he tosses in comments on Beethoven, Brahms, Renoir and Keats. Finally, even the point of Sons and Sol diers is feeble: for a real mother to affirm life after having lived it would mean something; but a young girl's affirmation...
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