Word: shavianly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to Methuselah, which the Theatre Guild produced on Broadway in 1922, is saved only by the Shavian graces from talking itself dizzy. Of all Shaw's plays it depends the least on his wise dramatic energy and the most on what he thinks of First and Last Things. But the unmatchable writing lavished on it cannot make a reader feel that he has got his hands on something-or an audience feel that anything has actually occurred...
Although unaccustomed to the surrounding soft red drapes and elaborate ionic columns, Donna Holabird and other cast members brushed up on Shavian subtleties until early morning, in preparation for the production's opening on Wednesday night...
...test would be truer, of course, if the veterans had chosen "Pygmalion' or some other Shavian comedy. But the only available local theater is Sanders, which once frightened Charles Addams, and no comedy could hope to overcome its intense and ancient gloom. Its other limitations, such as the absence of a curtain and the lack of opportunity for an imaginative set designer to cut loose, have also contributed to the selection of the plays, none of which requires more than a suggestive skeleton of scenery...
With unmistakable Shavian gusto, G. B. S. himself swept aside the first block on the road to the Veterans' Theater Workshop's "Saint Joan" last night. Replying to a Workshop request for permission to do the play here, Shaw cabled: "DELIGHTED TO HEAR ST JOAN BEING DONE AT HARVARD STOP HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE JOAN PLAYED BY MALE...
...cold character perfectly. John L. Lewis dashed out of his chair after each exposure, dashed out of the room the fourth time. George Bernard Shaw gave Karsh five minutes when he sat down. But when he found out that Karsh was an Armenian by birth, he gave him a Shavian shaving: "I have many friends among the Armenians, but to keep them strong and healthy they should be exterminated every little while." Later he gave Karsh all the time he wanted...