Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fast-Blooming Sunflower. To reddish-blond Boy Wonder Hall, his defeat by State Representative Warren Shaw came as a sharp sting. Only a year ago, national columnists were extolling Hall's brand of "Eisenhower Republicanism," his pro-labor veto of a hotly disputed right-to-work bill, his militant demands on behalf of the farmer, his prunings of deadwood in the State House. Fast-blooming Sunflower Fred Hall was a man on the rise...
Homespun Web. Against this grimly mirthful background, plodding, modest Warren Shaw ("Nobody's a worse speaker than I am") announced against Hall, despite the tradition that Kansas nominates its Republican governors for a second term. With tradition and the labor vote behind him, Fred Hall was far from worried. But labor had its mind mostly on the Democratic primary (see below), hardly at all on Hall: industrial Sedgwick County (Wichita) gave Shaw 3,500 more votes than Hall, Shawnee County (Topeka) went to Shaw by 3,200. The final unofficial vote: Shaw 156,300, Hall...
...this kind of dramatic handicap bothers Shaw the way an out-of-tune piano would have hurt Beethoven. What the playwright loses in motion and physical life he more than makes up for in intellectual content. Indeed, making Joan proud, self-righteous, and a military crusader adds intellectual spice to such questions as "Was she really guilty?" and "Would we burn her today?" It also leads up to the nationalism, monarchism, and Protestantism that Joan purportedly represents, and to some fine razzle-dazzle Shavian dialogue on these topics. In many ways the scenes in which these questions are most thoroughly...
...Shaw's lines themselves are usually enough to put over one of his plays, but in the current production the playwright gets an assist which verges on the superhuman. Siobhan McKenna, a little slip of a girl with an expressive face and a vibrant voice who plays Joan, received tumultuous applause last night and deserved every bravo of it. Cast in the role of an inspired maid, Miss McKenna was simply inspired herself. She is radiant and divine-looking when, as La Hire says, "the spirit rises in her like that." Yet she can also be a comradely fellow-soldier...
...nation-alism," wherever it came from, seems positively inspired. Caldwell Titcomb's musical score, which ranges from a shepherd's melody to a full-dress motet, is not only decorative but functional. In the epilogue it takes care of the wind, lightning, thunder, and clock chimes that Shaw ordered...