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Saint Joan. A curiously conglomerate compound is this latest Shaw play which the Theatre Guild brought out last week in the most gorgeous of red, gray and gold bindings. Some of the chapters are conceived in all the author's shameless artfulness as a melodramatist. Some of them are born of Shaw's inevitable penchant for controversial conversation. Christianity is alternately belabored and immortalized. History is consistently in caricature. These moods and many more are bundled into three full hours of changing action. Viewed as a whole, the play tantalizes. It is a stimulant and a drug mixed...
...Shaw's play, Saint Joan, will be produced in Manhattan by the Theatre Guild...
...FAILURES?The Theatre Guild intent upon the demoralizing effects of artistic starvation. Brutally modern...
...FAILURES ? Desperately depressing story of a man who had the choice between artistic and moral prostitution and chose the latter. A Theatre Guild production...
...Towneley cycle is by far the most developed of all those which survive. It was given yearly by the Chaundlers or Candle Makers' guild. From the point of view of construction, acting, and characterization, it is more fitted for modern presentation than any of the others. It loses, moreover, nothing but the stiffness of its predecessors; the spirit remains unchanged...