Word: shavianly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leiden, Juliana wrote a three-act comedy called Bluebeard. It was a slightly Shavian version of the story, with Bluebeard depicted as a psychiatrist and golf enthusiast; Juliana herself played one of Bluebeard's wives. Another time, she tried her hand at poetry; her anonymous entry in a class contest was judged "song of the year." The refrain went...
Actor Maurice Evans made the mistake of asking Author Bernard Shaw to join him in a transatlantic broadcast celebrating Man and Superman's record Broadway run. He was promptly winged with a Shavian shaft...
...even of his admirers -would call it art. But though Shaw may seem to be writing down in it, actually he is tuning up. In its satiric toots and twangs about family life, sex warfare, class barriers, old-fashioned prejudices and modernist delusions, you get preliminary snatches of mature Shavian comedy...
...direction of a theatrical performance is so very brilliant, so perfect that it shines through the individual characterizations and through the play itself. Such was the case last night at the Colonial, where the skillful hand of Director Peter Ashmore was even more prominent than the oh-so Shavian phrases of G.. B. Shaw and the excellences of the acting. Mr. Ashmore showed himself to be a master of style, to have a fine sense of movement, and to understand completely and sympathetically the temperament of the piece and the period with which he was involved...
...Carroll, headliner of the production, played the part of the Waiter-a typical Shavian member of the lower classes, who knows his place in society and is anxious to guard its importance. Tom Holmore was superbly British as Valentine, superbly 'supermanish' as the male of intellect powerless in the tentacles of his corresponding female's life force. Pat Kirkland was nicely vivacious, if slightly more American than the rest of the cast, as the younger daughter, Dolly. Her youthful brother, Philip, was played with a nice combination of exhuberance and English stage presence by Nigel Stock...