Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected, he was forced at 60-odd to scrape a living as a real-estate salesman. In these circumstances Dr. Townsend conceived his Plan to pay every citizen over 60 a Government pension of $200 per month for life. Good & Grey. Dr. Townsend appeared on the national scene some two years ago as a gaunt, grey, gentle old man sincerely bent on doing good. Intelligent observers unanimously denounced his Planacea as a monstrous fantasy, but for Founder Townsend they had only pitying sympathy. He might be simpleminded, but he was also, they were sure, greathearted. Even when ugly rumors rose...
Somewhat concealed behind this display of histrionic fireworks, Shaw's play remains a superb bit of theatre. For two acts and a half it relates the pageant of the maid and in one scene after another sets off the spectacle with brilliant insight and unbeatable dialogue. In the epilouge Mr. Shaw takes the stage and puts his people through the amusing cynicisms which mark his very best work...
Apted and his cohorts arrived on the scene by 10:50 o'clock and started their job of picking up Bursar's cards. Shortly afterwards four police cars from Cambridge headquarters appeared, and a few minutes later the "Black Maria" was met with cheers...
...card upon questioning was summarily searched by the Aptedmen, who succeeded in finding the ducat upon him. Another who failed to have his card was searched without success. When the Yard policeman thereupon claimed that he would remember his face, the Freshman made an atrocious face and left the scene with rapidity...
...very pensive, to the Tower and soon comes----to take me to the Opera House to see Saint Joan. A mighty chronicle play it is with sparklingly conversation in good Shavian style. Yet I did not like the River Loire scene which is weak with miracles, not the epilogue, it being too openly didactic. But Katharine Cornell, though not saintly enough as Joan, does make the Maid a convincing martyr...