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Elsewhere on Broadway, Actor Evans was taking money out of the theater with both hands-and shipping a pocketful of royalties every week to Playwright Shaw. , By last week, Evans' hit production of Shaw's Man and Superman had grossed $760,000 from 195 performances; Shaw's royalties added up to $114,000 (before U.S. and British taxes)-the most he had ever made from...
...direction and acting aside-and sets and costumes were top-notch, too-the question of the play itself arises. As an early bit of Shaw it might be considered a preliminary study for "Man and Superman," except that, although it treats the same subject a large part of the time, with the same philosophy, it does not restrict itself to the specific point of the Man of Moral Passion being caught by the life force. "You Never Can Tell" gets off some heavy fire at the actual process of courtship that the later masterpiece disregards, and it also expresses some...
Shaw, never a systematic nor an original thinker, preached socialism-but a brand so condescending and aristocratic that both Hyde Park revolutionists and solid trade unionists regarded him as an interloper. His bureaucratic socialism was a mixture of the Enlightened Gentleman and the Robot Superman. His heated exposes of the conditions of England's workers were followed by sneering gibes at their stupidity (the "Yahoos," he called them). He attacked capitalism, but portrayed capitalists so sympathetically that the readers of his plays found the attack indistinguishable from a defense...
...Superman of Nietzsche." But L'Humanité could not wait for the following Wednesday. Twenty-four hours later the women's page screamed: "Mothers, beware of American illustrated papers . . . these drawings, these comics." Hearst comics were the worst, but all were...
...Here is Tarzan, king of muscle, Mandrake, king of magic, and, stronger than all, Superman (the Superman of Nietzsche recently adopted by the Americans), whose power has no limits and who well symbolizes the overweening vanity of atomic capitalism...