Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shaw, eying both his fanatical Christians and his playboy Romans, the bread is buttered on both sides. Yet for all Shaw's playfulness, the Christians are allowed their serious moments, and for all Shaw's amusement, they earn a measure of his respect. But he is mainly in the mood for high jinks, and toward the end the lion is all he needs to turn the whole thing into a circus. Androcles (Ernest Truex) waltzes gaily with the lion (John Becher); Caesar is first chased by it and then takes the credit for taming...
...their first anniversary) by having her thrown in jail for disorderly conduct. "The minute she got in she started raising hell," he complained. Two days later she was given a suspended ten-day jail sentence, put on probation for six months, and ordered to stay out of the playboy's house...
...confused plot focuses on Alan Garraway's hatred for his brother Michael, played by Robert Mitchum, supposed to be the unknown quantity till the end of the play. He is either 1) a Bunthorne-like playboy who absconded with the firm's funds before disappearing in the Army 4-5 years before, and is being grudgingly protected by his magnanimous and eminently successful brother Alan; or 2) he is a wronged and heroic character who really does like poetry, women, and the finer things of life, and has been murdered by his jealous brother Alan...
...Playboy of the Western World. Burgess Meredith in an agreeable revival of the finest of modern folk satires (TIME...
...play, or even all the mirth. Actor Meredith's Christy was quite good at its best, but not all of a piece. Comedienne Mildred Natwick got the most liveliness into the play, but it was Dublin's Eithne Dunne-as Pegeen-who most caught The Playboy's spirit...