Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SAINT JOAN?Bernard Shaw and the Theatre Guild happily occupied with history...
...SAINT JOAN-The Theatre Guild reaping further distinction with Bernard Shaw's tonic chronicle of the deadliest female...
...SAINT JOAN-Bernard Shaw according the Theatre Guild the honor of first presenting to the world his characteristic chronicle of the Maid...
Four acts and an epilogue, subdivided into seven scenes, are required for the author's development of Joan from country maid to Saint. At the outset she appears at Vaucouleurs, where with a few brief sentences she persuades the testy Robert de Baudricourt to grant her soldiers and a horse to carry her to the Dauphin closeted at Chinon. Her recognition of the latter in the crowded throne room, his conversion to her standard follow. Shaw then revels in an arrant trumpery when he changes before your eyes the course of a contrary wind?the Maid's "miracle" on joining...
Winifred Lenihan, leading lady in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan: "On the front page of its Sunday Theatre Section, the New York Tribune published a large caricature of me, ignorantly referred to me as Florence Lennihan...