Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright, playful people of the Theatre Guild have long gambled luckily on the golden Shaw, and they never succeed better than when they exhibit his sly profundities to their legion of supporters. Winifred Lenihan is Major Barbara, Helen Westley is her sharp-tongued mother. Elliot Cabot is the Greek professor who at one point addresses Millionaire Dudley Digges as Mephistopheles, which Dudley Digges has been in Faust, until quite recently...
...beautiful wife and believing that she remains faithful, to him. In the sixth year, the young man dies in the night. His nurse bluntly informs the family that he was murdered (with an overdose of a sleeping drug). There are three possible murderers: his wife, his brother, his mother...
Motives: his wife is with child by his brother; his mother has observed this. Thus-out of love or pity for the invalid-mother, brother or wife would have reason to spare the invalid the pain of disillusion. Suffice it to say here that love was the motive; and you can easily pick the murderer...
...nurse is the most important character in the play. Her idea of DUTY is a strange mixture of hate for the invalid's wife, love for the invalid, horror of sexual irregularity. Of her, the mother says: "I cannot help feeling sorry for a girl who has so much virtue and so little charm...
...tremendously moving, though once or twice a little over-hating. Casha Pringle, as the wife, is a small-faced, tense English girl, who, when she removed her opera wrap in the first act, revealed a figure which caused the audience to gasp with approval. Mary Jerrold, as the mother, is wise and charming...