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...Shaw's latest and wittiest play to see our stage was presented Monday for the first time in Boston, by Mr. Faversham and his wonderful company. Mr. Faversham, having essayed, in the immediate past, the roles of a faun, a gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world...
...familiar type in our midst is the case-hardened gambler, the grimly smiling sport-lover who courts Dame Fortune all he can, the man who confesses with a devilish expression that he "likes to take a sporting chance". He need no longer go in town for the tense mental exhilaration of matching nickels to see who shall pay the fares, for within the six or seven walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada...
...Gambler", by K. C. Thurston...