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...APPLE CART?Shavian arguments against Democracy...
...later years of his life George Bernard Shaw, his spirit and eloquence unimpaired, has relinquished Socialism and the kindred shibboleths of his younger days to make obeisance before his King and, by implication, every wise, considerate monarch who ever occupied a throne. The hero of the first Shavian drama in six years is Magnus, an English ruler of the future. Skyscrapers now loom above London; the betasselled chambers of Buckingham Palace have been renovated in the glass-and-metal fashions of the modernists; poverty has been eliminated, and all England is a jerry-built, bourgeois panorama...
...reason for the royal migration, and after this had been tinkered by a Viennese otologist His Majesty went, not to Rome, but on a brief, face-saving visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. While there he did nothing more remarkable than pay a piquant visit to Arms and the Man, a Shavian drama which quite baselessly represents the Bulgarians as a backward, bathless, totally uncultured people. For one night, in honor of the jilted Tsar of the Bulgars, the scene of Arms and the Man was announced to be laid in Albania...
...with his usual entertaining conversation and a minimum of preaching. The Doolittle pere, played by the enthusiastic Mr. Dudley Digges, is a thoroughly adequate disciple of the "undeserving" poor, while Higgins and Colonel Pickering in the persons of Messrs. Cabot and Waram stand by in due admiration for the Shavian doctrines the jubilantly impecunious father of Eliza propounds...
...third act is highly hilarious, in spite of the aged device of the poor girl misplaying the Duchess. There is enough of the Shavian keenness and wit to make it one of the high spots of the play. It is in the part of the renovated Eliza displaying her new culture at tea that Miss Inescort retrieves her ostentatious display of vocal strength of the previous acts. Her highly phonetic and correct, "Not bloody likely" brings the act to a chaotic close...