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Director Preminger seems to approach Shaw's classic with a heavy Germanic reverence that sorts ill with the trustbusting, wit-snapping Shavian spirit. His scriptwriter, Novelist Graham Greene, has adapted Shaw's play to the screen almost word for word. The result is talk, talk, talk. And even when the talk is good Shawmanship, Preminger and his cast manage to make it bad acting. Indeed, the whole company plays with such clumsiness that the expert Sir John Gielgud, as Warwick, has to pick his way to histrionic success like a first-string halfback dodging through the scrub...
...late George Bernard Shaw ("Henderson collected me"), drama critic, historian of the South, friend of Mark Twain and longtime (retired: 1948) mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina; and Lucile Kelling, 62. dean of U.N.C.'s School of Library Science, short-story writer, poet, classicist and fellow Shavian; he for the second.time, she for the first; in Chapel Hill...
...blows land where they should--but only occasionally. The truth is that Shaw himself sometimes misses, for this is not one of his most satisfactory plays. It contains the usual quota of talk, and much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play, however, is the totally unnecessary last act, which serves only to confuse the problem which the work poses...
Sending a Library of Congress audience into a gale of scholarly snickers, aging (79) Biographer Archibald Henderson, a perennial examiner of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, trotted out a brand-new after-Shavian notion. It seems, related Henderson, that Shaw once got a letter that got the better of him. It was addressed to George Bernard Shawm. In a beard-tossing fury, Shaw roared to his wife that his correspondent could not even spell the name of the world's greatest man. Moreover, fumed G.B.S., there was no such word as "shawm." Shaw's wife, one of the world...
...Morosco, and "Inherit the Wind" with Paul Muni at the Morosco. Gwen Verdon gyrates through "Damn Yankees" on the stage of the 46th Street Theatre, and Frederic March and Florence Eldridge star in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Helen Hayes. Two Shavian comedies, "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer and "The Apple Cart" continue at the Mark Hellinger and the Plymouth...