Word: shavianly
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...available in a single volume (omitted: Immaturity and Love among the Artists). As novels they are pretty poor; Shaw himself observed that they were "just readable enough to be intolerable." But the three taken together are Victorian documents, and give a good idea of the audacious, irreverent young Shavian mind...
...concessions have been made to the bobby sox brigade. Johnson gets too cute at times, much to the brigade's delight, and the slapstick isn't always up to Shavian standards. But you don't have to be a bobby-soxer to enjoy Johnson's plight on his first duck-hunting trip, and constant adult laughter at the many good gags drowned out the most ambitious concerted squeals the soxers could muster last night...
...seems as if the action and dialogue might move towards some unity, and then the cameral swings back to the spectacle of a thousand exotic extras milling in the shadow of a fabulous temple. The development of Caesar, the materialist with an idealistic end, comes in snatches of crisp Shavian dialogue, but the entire effect is uneven and erratic. As the Roman conqueror, Claude Rains is excellent. He plays his part with intelligence and a calmness unmoved by the grandeur about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra, the girlish queen. Flora Robson, as Ftatateeta, a weird combination...
...high old time of it. All day long a procession of literary pilgrims plodded through his Ayot St. Lawrence home near London. "I don't like this," he howled. "They've come to see the animal just because he's 90." But Shavian wit was up to the occasion. Some birthday shafts...
...wrote George Bernard Shaw, 89, of Artist George Fredric Watts, who would be 137 if alive today. Last week a British biography of Watts arrived in the U.S. (The Laurel and the Thorn, by Ronald Chapman). Along with it came a Shavian review in the London Sunday Observer. The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required. Shaw's review proved that one of the six, auburn-haired actress Ellen Terry, means a lot more to 89-year-old Shaw-even today-than she ever...