Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the cast, though not up to a Broadway level, was often as not up to Actress Rainer. But they could not do justice to Shaw's play, which, for all its cracks at the English and gleeful satire against the Church, is one of the most serious that Shaw ever wrote. It holds up well, though it will never put its best foot forward until producers are allowed to do to Shaw what they do to Shakespeare: cut him drastically...
...equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...