Word: heartbreaking
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...conclude the season, the Mercury chose to revive Shaw's Heartbreak House for its "timeliness." Negotiations with Shaw were characteristic. His first cable ended up: "Who are you?" Finally cabling permission, he stated that terms "would not be too unreasonable." Without the least notion of what the cagiest bargainer among living dramatists would consider reasonable, the Mercury took on the financial gamble with the same light-heartedness with which it took on the cumbrous play itself. When Heartbreak House was presented last week under Welles's direction and with himself in the leading role of 88-year...
During the War, when George Bernard Shaw wanted to give a symbolic habitation and a name to two great elements of 20th-century English upper-class society, he called one "Heartbreak House" and the other "Horseback Hall." Last week in Washington, an exhibition at the new branch gallery of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed the spick & span art of Horseback Hall as it was in its far from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall...
...village of Big Heartbreak, Crevecoeur-le-Grand, about 50 miles from Paris, nervous chickens went to roost, hysterical cows were herded into their barns, and the town's leading citizens put away their shotguns last week after such a wedding as the village will not soon forget. Josephine Baker got married and became a French citizen at the same time...
...mouth. Ann called him a soulless plug-ugly, rushed off to Hollywood, where she got a job as pressagent to a child star, vicious, golden-haired Joey Cooley. Meanwhile, back in London, when he could tear himself away from heavy meals by means of which he forgot his heartbreak, the Earl of Havershot was straightening out the affairs of an alcoholic cousin. This cousin had fallen into the clutches of a designing female who, according to the classic formula of Wodehouse novels, turned out to be the lovely girl whose neck the Earl had burned...
...spare time from pleasures most people seem to be hopping in and out of theatres, and not only as spectators. During the last week the Mummers, the largest of the University dramatic societies, has been giving admirable performances of Shaw's "Heartbreak House"; this week the newly opened Arts Theatre is giving us an Ibsen cycle. Meanwhile all one's friends seem to be doing something in the grand Amateur Dramatic Club production of "Julius Caesar," which is taking shape in its rehearsals very promisingly for its performances in the last week of term...