Word: shavianly
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...Devil's Disciple at the Fine Arts Theatre was described by our reviewer as "good fun," Shavian, of course. Shows at 8:40 p.m. and a Saturday matinee...
...claws of a full-grown tiger. Even the supporting roles were graced by top-notchers-Judith Anderson, Cyril Ritchard, Jack Hawkins and Farley Granger. For producer, NBC turned to Anthony Quayle. who had just starred in Marlowe's Tamburlaine on Broadway. Though compressed into 90 minutes, the Shavian comedy kept the refreshing crackle of ideas crisply delivered (the central theme: in 20 centuries man has made no progress save in mechanical ingenuity), and offered a witty appraisal of human strength and weakness. But the TV audience, according to Trendex, gave the show only a trifling rating of 16.5-roughly...
...becoming a drama critic," fired back Shaw in his first letter. "It happens by accident." The accident never happened to Golding Bright, but the accidental correspondence lingered on for 34 years. Now published for the first time, it consists more of literary shavings than true Shavian glitter. Shaw gave his advice off the top of his head, but since there was more top to the G.B.S. head than most, his advice, aside from a few personal quirks, is better than most. Samples...
Posturing Conceits. The networks also offered caviar to the general: NBC collaborated with Maurice Evans in a revival of Bernard Shaw's 58-year-old comedy about the American Revolution, The Devil's Disciple. The Shavian jape had a slow first act (more Shaw's fault than the producer's), but when Dennis King swept onstage as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, he and Actor Evans had a rousing time matching paradoxes and genteel insults. On CBS, Omnibus journeyed back 184 years to resurrect Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, with a polished cast (Michael Redgrave...
Inhabiting Playwright Bagnold's Sussex manor house are a self-indulgent, irresponsible dowager who exerts a Lady Macbeth manner on trifles, her adolescent granddaughter who indulges in mischief and fabricates melodrama, a rather Shavian manservant who cannot bear being criticized, and upstairs, dying, a butler who for 40 years has ruled the household. Into it, as a companion for the granddaughter, comes a primly dressed woman with a superb and transforming knowledge of gardens, a gift for ingratiating herself with people, and an obviously beclouded past. How beclouded is made clear when a judge (Percy Waram...