Word: shavianly
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...risen who is baiting the literary public almost as successfully as does Bernard Shaw. Indeed the new messiah once employed the alias "Shaw," and there were those who hoped and whispered that he had been born beneath a Shavian rose. Today, however, weighty British reference works have pinned down this elusive youth with the finality of taxidermists transfixing a butterfly. His name shall be henceforth Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, his birth date Aug. 15, 1888, his land of origin Wales; and if the taxidermists have made a mistake, the joke is still very much upon the butterfly...
...Author, long a professor of philosophy in a Roman high school, turned to drama late in life after writing many novels and short stories. "Pirandellian" is now Italy's equivalent for "Shavian." He came to wide fame only in 1921, with his play Six Characters in Search of an Author. Critics who deny that Professor Pirandello is a philosopher at least agree that his genius for sardonic humor is considerable. If he only toys with mankind's moral and spiritual absurdities, and makes the stage a debating platform for fruitless metaphysics, he at least does it with terse...
...display his photograph with the smug inscription: "To the only man who could teach me anything. (Signed) G. B. S." Strolling in to dinner Lord Birkenhead examined the photograph, allowed his lip to curl at the Irish red-head's boast. Drawing his pen he wrote below the Shavian autograph, "Could Birkenhead teach you no law?" then added, "Do let us have a little less of your perfection, My Dear...
Forgetful of the crowd of devotees, at last allowing the CRIMSON reporter a moment's chat the delightful lady who had once given the Theatre Guild audiences a glimpse of the Shavian Cleopatra plunged immediately into a serious discussion of the modern theatre. Not believing that college is in any sense a training school for the theatre, Miss Hayes is nevertheless pleased to find so many undergraduates interested in the world of the masque and buskin...
...wink is enjoying flawless production at the Guild Theatre. Under Philip Moeller's direction, it emerges a dramatic symphony. Lynn Fontanne (who spent her summer in London picking up a cockney dialect and wardrobe) plays the wild specimen of the slums. Henry Travers is her ragged parent with Shavian grievances against middle-class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins...