Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the poetry there is always the delicious humor. The logic of the Queen, the Princess's self-sufficient, practical step-mother, is not more unanswerable than Gilbertian when she suggests the way for the girl to escape the doom foretold by the stars--that she is to be ate and devoured by a scaly Green Dragon from the North. Marriage, argues the Queen, is the way of escape. Dragons from time immemorial have eaten King's daughters but not Kings' wives. "In all the inventions made by poets did any of you ever hear of a Dragon swallowing...
...Copley Players have again revived "Fanny's First Play," that supreme example of Shavian wit. Capably presented by Mr. Henry Jewett's Company, the play is a delectable piece of wit and humor. It is almost impossible to express how thoroughly enjoyable are the many ironic, sarcastic and ridiculous speeches which Mr. Shaw has put into the mouth of his characters. One cannot help thinking how much pleasure the author had in writing the play; in so thinking one's enjoyment is increased many fold...
...Clive cleverly played the henpecked husband, while Robert Noble did well in the delightful and familiar figure of the irate father, Mr. Gilbey. The only thing which one might wish for is less drawn-out speeches, which are difficult to speak and follow. Still, they are full of unexpected humor, and the whole is a thoroughly enjoyable performance
...criticize the club for proceeding along these untried lines; still there is a certain newness and charm in these plays which quite outweighs the audience's lack of familiarity. "The Dragon' should be especially happy in this respect, for Lady Gregory writes with the delicacy of Barrie and the humor of Dickens...
...Humour is the note of the play, but humor does not exclude the gallant swagger of romance, and when the cook sallies out to fight the dragon, and . . . the right note is struck by a master hand; . . . the conversion of the Dragon to vegetarianism is a stroke of genius. Dickens at his best never contrived a better ending than Lady Gregory, or one more in keeping with the tone of the right kind of fairy story...