Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference between the two pictures lies more in the treatment of the theme than in the theme itself. A small-town setting encourages informality more than does a religious one, and correspondingly the picture takes itself very seriously, even in the dramatic scenes which, if unconvincing, at least are not dull. But it is in the lighter moments that "Welcome Stranger" is most at case. A square-dance called by Crosby makes a first-class musical number, and some scenes between him and the adolescent daughter of a drunkard come close to stealing the picture...
...ascetic ideals, has been vulgarized nobly by Maurice Evans. Instead he shows a comically flat and self-conscious hero, who completely lacks the real pathos of the Shavian creation. Emoting in the worst Shakespearean tradition, Evans draws plenty of laughs, and provides adequate surface entertainment; again a more solid treatment is called for. But Frances Rowe as the unscrupulous female, who pursues him to eventual triumph, is superb. Alternately voluptuous and indignant, she glides through her tasty part with complete competence, while the other players fit themselves into their entertaining roles with the necessary attention to proportion and restraint...
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...
Their recommendations: doctors should take any possible cancer symptoms seriously; a general practitioner who has any suspicion of possible cancer should lose no time in referring the patient to an expert. "The treatment of cancer is as much an emergency as a fracture, and much more important to the patient's life...
...operation or by X-ray or radium treatment...