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Hero Paul Lennox is strong on good works and good looks, A dynamic young fellow, he is modern enough to insist that a gymnasium and round-table marriage counseling are necessary supplements to his central message of God's grace. Yet Paul is beset by a corroding sense of failure. He feuds with an important parishioner, can't wholeheartedly accept the girl he loves, fails miserably as an example to his heavy-drinking young half brother. It takes most of the book and a crippling attack of polio to make Paul understand his failure in life...
Britain's King George III once let his heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without...
...that this first Boston performance of "Is Life Worth Living?" isn't worth seeing. In his story of the happenings in a simple Irish town under the influence of the melodramatic performances of a hammy repertory company, Lennox Robinson has written a number of superb scenes, ranging from burlesque to pathos, and they come frequently enough to make the production decidedly on the plus side as entertainment. And-at one point, the second act climax, the burlesque and pathos are combined in a scene that stands out even in this highly touted season...
Agassiz Theater at Radcliffe will house an Idler production of Lennox Robinson's "Is Life Worth Living?" tonight. The year's second 'Cliffe presentation, an Irish comedy, features Cathleen O'Connor, John Mannick '49, and Anna Prince...
...Lennox Robinson joins Shaw and O'Casey this week in the ranks of Irish dramatists to be chosen for production by local College groups, when the Radcliffe Idler opens its production of his comedy, "Is Life Worth Living?" Thursday at Agassiz Theater...