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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copley this week Boston's indefatigable stock company has given us s chance to see the play just as Shaw wrote it, stripped of the glitter of Leslie Howard's virtuoso film performance. The result is an interesting commentary on the claim Shaw makes of being a great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw...
Creation of a great mass of vocationally trained people on the one hand and a comparatively small group of culturally educated persons on the other, would tend to destroy the unifying force in American democracy. For one of the bases of democracy is a common, diversified education. Education along these lines enables all classes of men to communicate with each other, to govern themselves, to lead richer lives. Abolish or seriously restrict a cultural education and the common bond of free men disintegrates...
...approach has been experimental in that the sets and music form the true theme of the play. The main story serves only as a backbone on which to hang short scenes expressing the vast and varied character of the people forming a great metropolis," Freedley said...
...popular belief, Harvard suffices are neither better nor worse than the average New York audience," opined Bert Lahr, star of Cole Perrier's new show "DuBarry Was a Lady," in his dressing room at the Shubert Theatre last night. "All shows these days are written for patrons of the Great White Way, and Harvard boys have their pseudo-sophistication...
...Granted that the picture is emotional to the nth degree, the fact remains that democracy, Americanism--call it what you will--is more a matter of emotion than cold logic. When an American sees the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, he does not see merely the image of a great President. A thousand and one connotations are called up by that sight--the struggle for the Union, the defeat of slavery, in fact, the whole "American dream." Knowing this fact, Capra has played upon it to the limit. Let him who can find a better foundation for democracy cast...