Word: heartbreaking
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...Saint Joan" can be set aside as the best Joan, then "Heartbreak House" becomes the best Shaw. The Copley Players of the Boston Repertory Association have given "Heartbreak House" their best and the total result is a thoroughly enjoyable feast...
...Theater will present its inaugural five plays over a ten-week period. Beside "Road to Rome" which will benefit the Radcliffe Fund, they will perform George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," "Andre Obey's "Noah," George Kelly's "Showoff," and "Sunrise in My Pocket," a new play by Edwin Justus Mayor...
...must be sick of walking Heartbreak Lane...
...welfare of the blacks. One of them is killed by a housebreaker, and to his terrible sorrow the old man learns that his son Absalom was the killer. . This situation allows the novelist to dramatize with irony a complex of interracial tensions in which there seems little but heartbreak for the just and disinterested. Although it is as much meditation as fiction in certain parts, and the meditation is not always as profound as it is impassioned, Cry, the Beloved Country has moments of distinction...
Bernard Shaw's treatment of the identical theme demonstrates Ibsen's inadequacy. Taking his semifaseist philosophy partially from the Norwegian playwright himself, Shaw builds an effective and convincing argument in "Heartbreak House" and other plays because his technique--his language, ideas, and situations--is bright and sharp enough to carry his doctrine. Ibsen bases his philosophic appeal on a situation that falls flat, on characters that are crude white and blackest black. The language--whether his fault or that of the translator--is so stilted, so drab that it tends to mire the play in a morass of monotony...