Word: shavianly
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...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...
...which facts was the Englishman-or anyone else-to face? Here is where Shavian Bentley has his troubles...
Homemade Fancies. Once there is added to these bewildering inconsistencies Shaw's homemade fads & fancies-his plumping for "eugenic breeding'' (which Bentley, with restraint born of love, euphemizes into "idealistic racism"), antivivisectionism, vegetarianism, the Bergsonian "Life Force"-the Shavian mind begins to look like a railroad baggage room, full of handsome luggage and old egg crates...