Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...praise received by its principal actors, and the encouraging results of a poll which had just been raken to find the College's preference in drama. From the ballots handed out in the dining halls, the VTW had learned that the most popular playwrights were Shakespeare, Shaw, and Noel Coward--a winning combination which might have come as a surprise to any but the last two named. A Shakespearean play would have been too expensive for the indebted Workshop, so Shaw's "Saint Joan" was selected for their second production in the spring...
...Coward's Conversion. In a chapter headed "Shame and Wounded Snobbery," jesting G.B.S. turns dead-solemn and hands out a brand-new episode from his life-a "snob-tragedy" which profoundly influenced him although it caused him such anguish that he was never able to confess it even to his wife...
...Model School, Shaw thinks, that marked him for life. Out of its humiliations, he suddenly conceived "the birth of moral passion." Ignominy made him stand up for the first time ("When I was a boy I was a coward, and bitterly ashamed of it") and passionately demand respect-not only for himself but for his more humble schoolfellows. Humiliation made him a living example of his thesis that "the professional, penniless younger son classes are the revolutionary element in society: the proletariat is the conservative...
...acting is superb. Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller are a comedy team on a par with Coward and Lawrence, and give the Pygmalion Galatea story an hilarious slant the Greeks could never have envisioned...
...atmosphere is deceiving. Blum's sells more candy (780,000 lbs. last year in its San Francisco store alone) than any other retail store in the world, and has a list of mail-order customers that reads like Who's Who (among them: Eisenhower, Noel Coward, Jim Farley, Lauren Bacall...