Word: timelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just why G. B. Shaw picked "Pygmalion" from his sheaf of plays for revival last year as a movie, the world may never know. We can only be glad that he picked something, and hope that he will continue. "Pygmalion" seems to have a certain timeless formula for a hit show--a beautiful girl, a bit of philosophizing, and liberal seasoning...
...great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw in any form will never cease to be lots...
...days later Clarence Dykstra, who is far too smart to get into a name-calling contest, replied: "A university is timeless, selfless, and committed to the commands of truth. . . . Individual lives are short. . . . No adversity kills a firmly rooted university...
...Shaw is one of the few men who is just as good as he thinks he is. For although "Candida" is a play of cosier and snugger England, safe from air raids and the Red menace, there is nothing cost or snug or dated about the bearded Fabian's timeless masterpiece. Nor is there anything dated about Cornelia Otis Skinner who looks almost too young for thirty year old Candida...
Recounting their story with no Biblical diction, no religious fervor, and with nondescript, timeless costuming, Playwrights Coffee & Cowen make it plausible and human. To Mary they give dignity, and to her experiences in Jerusalem on the night of her Son's betrayal, drama. There is drama, too, when a likable young disciple introduces himself as Judas Iscariot...