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...Woodruff, the third member of the team, was rejected by the army during the war, but went to Amsterdam on the staff of the foreign office. He is known in England as one of the wittiest undergraduates in Oxford...
...Pygmalion", the shrewd intellect of Shaw is at its clearest and wittiest. He divides the actual from the supposed or imagined with a two-edged sword. He creates true characters, pleasantly individualized. As in all his best plays, so in "Pygmalion" the dramatic technique is perfect. No machinery creaks, no awkward comings in or goings out mar the uproarious comedy of the five acts. One is haunted by the feeling that taken seriously, Mr. Shaw may turn out to be a serious man, and his plays truer than people think. Alfred Dolittle, as an impersonation of "undeserving poverty", which...
There is little need of considering "Le Misanthrope", which was performed by Mile. Sorel and her associates as the third bill of their repertory this week at any length as a play, for doubtless every reader will recall from the hours of school or college courses this the wittiest of all Moliere's dramatic work. For those who have forgotten, a glance at any of its editions in one of the "modern language" series will recall its brilliant satiric arraignment of the foibles of society, its unusual insight into the souls of men and women, and its succession of significantly...
...Shaw's latest and wittiest play to see our stage was presented Monday for the first time in Boston, by Mr. Faversham and his wonderful company. Mr. Faversham, having essayed, in the immediate past, the roles of a faun, a gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world...
...last year's victories, like the others, has no spontaneity and is neither good nor bad. The specimen lecture again appears under the heading of "Phonographic Marvels" and in this case is an excellent summary of peculiarities which are, however, well known. The "By the Way" is the wittiest piece in the number, and "The America's Cup," for a sustained effort, is very readable...