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Robert L. Shaw Washington...
MISALLIANCE by G.B, Shaw...
...Bernard Shaw is one of the few preachers whose sermons wake you up. The stage is his pulpit. It is also his concert hall, ballroom and battlefield...
...Shaw is up to all these tricks in Misalliance, one of his wildly irrepressible comedies. The drawing room belongs to John Tarleton (Philip Bosco), a self-made millionaire. Tarleton is an omnivorous reader and an avid fox hunter of ideas...
Enter the handsome aviator (Peter Coffield) and his passenger, the daredevil Polish acrobat Lina Szczepanowska (Patricia Elliott), Shaw's totally liberated New Woman. The third unexpected guest comes wielding a revolver. Gunner (Anthony Heald) proves to be Tarleton's illegitimate son, bent on revenge. This gives Shaw a chance to play the dialectical game of cat-and-mouse. Inevitably, Hypatia gets the aviator to chase her till she catches him. "Papa, buy the brute for me," she purrs to Tarleton. Papa does...