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During the 1920s, The Theatre Guild was the most important single influence on the U. S. theatre. It may have fallen for artiness, but it also recognized art. An organization which, during its first ten years, produced Heartbreak House, Liliom, Back to Methuselah, R. U. R., The Adding Machine, Saint Joan, Processional, Ned McCobb's Daughter, Right You Are If You Think You Are and Strange Interlude could well be pleased with itself...
Most important act of the Guild's early days was its tie-up with Shaw. Tackling his difficult Heartbreak House when nobody else would touch it, the Guild produced it successfully, next season took on Shaw's triple-decker Back to Methuselah. Of that play, Shaw told the Guild that his name had been worth $10,000 to them-they had figured to lose $30,000, lost only...
...safe. He said so: "If they should be mad enough to attack our western line, streams of blood will flow." They wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah's age, and I'm not sure he'll attain his goal." They wanted praise: "No power on earth has such a munitions industry. None has as good skilled workers. None has such intelligent workers...
...much trouble to investigate beforehand the most important problem of his life; he must learn behindhand by experience. This for Methuselah, but hardly for mortals. In any job this man will get but a worm's eye view of one business, and his hours will be too full even to give much thought to alternative occupations...
Announcing that their new edition would list the Dionne Quintuplets, the publishers of Encyclopaedia Britannica breathlessly declared: "You may look in vain in the great 24 volumes for your Shirley Temples, but the even tenderer years of the five phenomenal children have achieved a memorial that took all of Methuselah's 900 years and all of Solomon's 500 wives to get for those two ancient worthies. Never before in the 168 years of Britannica history has a living child been given space in its pages...