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...gallows. It is a gesture of self-conscious heroism that would have done Nathan Hale proud, but in George Bernard Shaw's world of comic melodrama, it remains only a gesture. In The Devil's Disciple, Richard Dudgeon cannot die, for his life, as a newly-created American saint, and the world's future, symbolized by the birth of the United States, depend on each other...
...chief agents are the use of "Mister" to address the men and of "Goody" (colloquialism for "Goodwife") to refer to the women, along with a lot of unusual third-person verb forms ("He have his goodness now"). But one has only to compare The Crucible with Shaw's Saint Joan--another play that climaxes with confession, recantation and martyrdom--to see how much greater a master of language the Briton...
...house that they bought in rundown condition for $5,000 and are now fixing. Koco has installed new plumbing, paneling, siding and decorative brick. On one wall hangs a pair of Texas longhorns. They have also bought an old boat in which they go to catch smelts on Lake Saint Clair. They have just finished paying $10,000 for a suburban lot nearer to the Massey-Ferguson plant, and soon they hope to start building a new house there...
...Broadway ever erects a monument to a patron saint of laughter, Neil Simon will have to be it. He is back in good form in California Suite, a quartet of playlets in the same mold as his Plaza Suite except that the setting is now the Beverly Hills Hotel...
...blessed hoot about stardom." Between her first appearance onstage in 1904 and her last, in 1970, she gave thousands of performances, many of them with London's famed Old Vic repertory and her actor-director husband, Sir Lewis Casson. Her favorite role: the boisterous peasant revolutionary in Saint Joan, which George Bernard Shaw wrote expressly for Dame Sybil...