Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saint Joan (by George Bernard Shaw;* produced by the Theatre Guild) is often hailed as Shaw's greatest play. Very likely none is greater; yet few are more uneven. Broadway's first Saint Joan in 15 years can hardly help suffering from the mechanical flaws of the play, and never quite measures up to the best...
...Joan's story has been better told elsewhere. The point with Shaw is that he was telling more than a story. One of the play's great virtues is that Shaw looked beyond the pathos and heroism of its events to the magnitude of its issues. He saw Joan, disobeying the church to follow her voices and her vision, as one who, like Luther, could not do otherwise. He saw, too, that in so acting, Joan, like Luther, was no longer Catholic but Protestant. And as her Protestantism is a menace to the church, so her nationalism...
...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead, with Joan Fontaine, Fred Allen, Josephine Baker, Gracie Fields, George Sanders, William Gargan, Fernand Gravet...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Main Street, with Joseph Gotten, Joan Fontaine...
...Saint Joan is one of Shaw's best under the direction of Margaret Webster. Uta Hagen leads in this brilliant Plymouth performance...