Word: shavians
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...exhausting time becoming Joan Chard, that promising new star of the sophisticated theatre. Her marriage with David complicated matters?they loved each other with youthful violence, but, no matter what David did, he never seemed to be able to make any money. Eruptive misunderstandings followed the injection of the Shavian Moreby into their lives?his verbal pyrotechnics made Joan dizzy and David heroically annoyed and led to a triangular drama in which poor David was unwittingly cast for the part of the sacrificial goat. But David escaped from the altar?Joan could not do without him after...
Died. Louis Calvert, 63, veteran English actor of Shakespearean and Shavian roles, producer, author of two widely known books on the art of acting, from a sudden heart attack...
...Lambert did not grasp all the possibilities that the almost Shavian character of Alceste offers,--playing it throughout in a cold, grave key, approaching monotony; but his rich voice, expressive gestures, and finished diction go far to make up any deficiency. M. Ravet created, with delicate strokes of characterization, a very true Oronte. M. Gerval and M. Stern maintained the Moliere tradition of overplaying the society gallants. The well-known letter scene of the last act, in which they play such a prominent part, was, however, most disappointing in its careless, hurried, unthinking development. Mlle. Berendt, Mme. Marsans...
Monday night saw the opening of a well balanced hot weather bill at Keith's with two comedy headliners furnishing ample amusement for a holiday audience. Lillian Shaw was excellent in her Shavian character studies. Her East Side dialect was something to hear, and hear again, and her listeners showed their appreciation of her cleverness. If she is ever out of a job, she should have no trouble in getting work with Potash and Perlmutter after her first cheerful "Helloy...
...uncanonically, irresponsibly. His knowledge was wide and luminous; on most of the subjects of which he wrote it was exhaustive; yet always it was the knowledge not of the researcher nor even of the steady-going teacher of youth, but of the adventuring man of letters. Long before the Shavian era in England, he was a professorial Bernard Shaw...