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Ellen Terry's letters to Shaw, hardly ever as long, as funny, as well-turned as his, are surprisingly human, touchingly wise. They serve as an excellent foil to the Shavian epistolary brilliance. And she brought out in the "inhuman" Shaw a side his readers and audiences have not often seen, a side of him which was uppermost when he wrote this last tribute to her memory: "She became a legend in her old age; but of that I have nothing to say; for we did not meet, and, except for a few broken letters, did not write...
...Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect for individuality...
...things happened to George Bernard Shaw last week which he would never have predicted. He allowed himself to sign a contract to let his plays be cinematized (see p. 46). And he found himself set to music. Until pictures could talk, a Shavian film was obviously impossible. Almost as strange as a silent Shaw picture would be a Shaw opera. That, however, had not been attempted by the young German composer, Karl Friedrich Grimm, who mounted Shaw's steps last week, score in hand. He had merely written a prelude to Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra. Shaw listened, pondered...
Since his entry into the realm of light and "situation" comedy Mr. Dix is a much improved actor over the Dix of racing car melodramas. Tinged with a bit of Shavian deviltry the play depicts the plight of an electrician who for the sum of a few thousand dollars is willing to lower himself and become a gentleman. For some reason, and, she is fairly pleasant, he gets all mixed up in his singleness of purpose. The story ends happily, with Mr. Dix still an electrician. The picture is an amusing satire on the Ward McAllister type...
...APPLE CART-Political problems in the Shavian future, lightly agitated by the Theatre Guild...