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Margaret Webster, who directed this production, made the most of the balance Shaw got into "Saint Joan." She gets the most out of the moments of heroism and beauty. In the episodes of Shavian preaching, especially the conversations between the Earl of Warwick and the Cauchon, the Bishop who tries Joan, she succeeds in keeping it from deteriorating wholly into a panel discussion...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Saint Joan | 9/25/1951 | See Source »

Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...Love's Labour's Lost" does not read as well as it plays, and thus the production itself is especially lauditory. Director Albert Marre has given it a Shavian setting; the characters dress in 19th century costume and move in a "Man and Superman" milieu without the least offense to context. "Love's Labour's Lost" would be young in any century, if it received the kind 'of delicate treatment which the Brattle Company has administered. Grace and delicacy are just what the Brattle group has given...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

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