Word: hallam
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...never knew you had a brother, Harvard," says Lady Cicely Waynflete to her brother-in-law, Sir Howard Hallam, in the first act of Captain Brassbound's Conversion. And Howard answers (unpardonably): "Perhaps because you never asked me." It's like that all the way through three long acts: hackwork by a great playwright. Shaw's intention, no doubt, was to present a series of outrageous sentiments in elegant language, but all that he actually achieved was a preposterous plot, a smattering of coy jokes and wheezy epigrams and a brace of cardboard characters (there's even a comic Cockney...
...take Paul Barstow (the new Howard Hallam), a morose and lanky bird of prey, who is somehow at once the hangingest judge in England and--the proper Shavian combination--a silly old fool.] Sir Howard, naturally, is one of Lady Cicely's first successful take-over bids, and Barstow succumbs with the proper air of well-bred petulance. Then there's Robert Chapman, who, as Captain Hamlin Kearney (an American naval officer devised to fill up the last act), suffers such an astounding sea change as to be almost unrecognizable. Kearney is the last of Lady C's successes...
...take Samuel Abbot, who has always enjoyed being insufferably English on stage, but who only just now as Sir Howard Hallam has achieved the appearance of an educated, nourished, pampered, brushed, and altered tomcat, Sir Howard, naturally, is one of Lady Cicely's first successful take-over bids, and Abbott succombs with just the proper air of well-bred petulance. Then there's Robert Chapman, who, as Captain Hamlin Kearney (an American naval officer devised to fill up the last act), suffers such an astounding sea change as to be almost unrecognizable. Kearney is the last of Lady...
...never knew you had a brother, Howard," says Lady Cicely Waynfleet to her brother-in-law, Sir Howard Hallam, in the first act of CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION. And Howard answers (unpardonably): "Perhaps because you never asked me." It's like that all the way through three long acts: hack-work by a great playwright Shaw's intention, no doubt, was to present a series of unjust sentiments in elegant language, but all that he actually achieved was a preposterous plot, a smattering of coy jokes and wheezy epigrams, and a brace of cardboard characters (there's even a comic...
...play, set in North Africa, features Joanne Hamlin as Lady Cicely Waynflete, celebrated British traveller, the role Shaw wrote for British actress Ellen Terry. Tom Griffin plays the tital role of Brassbound, brigand and smuggler, who is in reality the nephew of Lady Cicely's travelling companion, Sir Howard Hallam, a famous English jurist, played by Samuel Abbott...