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Girandoux' dialogue tends to preach, and the HTG's cast was not able to overcome that, June Garfield, Cannaught O'Connell, and David Bowen came the closest perhaps, the rest of the east ranged from good to weak, and showed an opening night predisposition towards blowing its lines. Giraudoux' dialogue also suffers in the translation (example: "Ajax is the meanest plug ugly among the Greeks") and there was nothing the HTG could do about that. Perhaps the Fogg Court will cut down both the immobility and the talkiness of tonight's HTG production, but it will do little to remedy...
...Swift, to which Shaw historically and spiritually belonged, believed in authority; it believed that the moral was the practical; it was worldly, though without huge wealth; it believed in the beatitude of the conventional. It managed to believe in these things and at the same time to preach revolution in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Victorian practicality meant the practical man's ruthless advantage; Shaw's was the older practicality of a fundamental fairness and goodness. Romanticism made him believe that autocrats could distribute this. He believed, like Wells, like everyone who matured before...
Spanish Protestants do enjoy some liberties, e.g., they may organize churches, preach in them as they please, train their ministers and print literature for circulation among themselves. However, reports Dr. Garrison, "they cannot lawfully do anything that would be regarded as the public practice of their religion...
This is Green's eighth trip to America. He said that he would make no attempt to preach on specifically American problems...
...little white church with knotty pine paneling, ruddy, bald-domed Parson Frakes, now 62, got up to preach one of his last sermons as head of the settlement school, from which he is retiring to devote more time to the Methodist Home Board of Missions...