Word: melodramatist
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Saint Joan. A curiously conglomerate compound is this latest Shaw play which the Theatre Guild brought out last week in the most gorgeous of red, gray and gold bindings. Some of the chapters are conceived in all the author's shameless artfulness as a melodramatist. Some of them are born of Shaw's inevitable penchant for controversial conversation. Christianity is alternately belabored and immortalized. History is consistently in caricature. These moods and many more are bundled into three full hours of changing action. Viewed as a whole, the play tantalizes. It is a stimulant and a drug mixed...