Word: mayoress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...correct name for the play, we suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike a false note, until one suddenly wakes up to the fact that it is really the play's manifesto, and that the Mayoress is the eternal Woman, the eternal Eve, pleading for her misunderstood sex, or rather analyzing it with prenatural cleverness and a certain...
...acting is all that could possibly be desired. Miss Henrietta Crossman as the Mayoress does what is really a wonderful piece of work. In many respects the Mayoress is the most subtle feat of characterization Mr. Shaw has accomplished. Mr. Lumsden Hare, as the scarlet general, succeeds in conveying just the right degree of appalling sentimentality characteristic of soldiers. Mr. Charles Cherry, as one of the slightly attractive super-cads, Mr. Shaw is so fond of depicting, achieves the best piece of characterization we have ever seen from him. Mr. Edwin Cushman, as the High Church curate, is appropriately preposterous...