Word: supermanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such successful plays as "Allegro" and "man and Superman" were sold out almost as soon as the box office windows opened. Abrams said, although his agency did manage to fill some orders for those shows...
...press out the depth, cut it to a sensible length, then polish so it glistens, and you have the current product at the Shubert. The process transforms a dramatic treatise in philosophy into a funny but two-dimensional play, perhaps the best that can be done with. "Man and Superman," which is, after all, something to be read rather than seen. Shaw's rebellious witticisms are served up in the elegant, stylized manner that Gielgud brought to perfection in "The Importance of Being Earnest," and if the audience is delighted, it may also be disappointed in getting this and nothing...
Nevertheless, this constant attempt to smooth away a rough, wholesome play cannot be completely successful. Where the treatment of "Earnest" was natural and right, in "Man and Superman" it is artificial, and when the power of Shaw's ideas does break through, both the cast and the audience are left both embarrassed and helpless. But after a painful farewell to George Bernard Shaw, one can trot down to the Shubert and be amused...
Test Tube Frolics. So-called scientific fiction of this sort is not the private property of pulps and comics. As Author Bailey shows in this survey of the literary imagination frolicking among test tubes and cam shafts, Tarzan, Superman and even Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle are novices and newcomers in the field...
...British had never seen anything quite like Texas' wisecracking Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias. "She must be Superman's sister," one spectator whispered after the Babe whacked a whistling drive down the fairway last week in the British women's amateur golf championship at Gullane, Scotland. The Babe nearly always outdrove her opponents by 50 to 100 yards. On one nine, she came in two under men's par. Between rounds she entertained galleryites with trick shots and her impressions of the highland fling...