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JAMES EDWARDS Santa Barbara, Calif...
...result is that the reader or audience sooner or later falls into the boredom of the overstimulated. If Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, John Bull's Other Island, Major Barbara, Pygmalion and possibly You Never Can Tell are excepted, the law of diminishing returns begins to work halfway through his plays. There are wonderful moments in Man and Superman and St. Joan, but comedy, or in the last case, tragedy, degenerate into the longueurs of debate; farce becomes crude. Devastating in his ability to talk on both sides of the question...
...Victorian writers did. His eye for the middle-class milieu was perfect. He knew exactly the values beneath the humbug and was only rash in assuming that men and women can live without it. Candida is an excellent portrait of a woman and so is the delightful Major Barbara. The theater, and comedy above all, has always dealt in types; the sentimental Englishman and the disillusioned Irishman in John Bull's Other Island are brilliantly observed. The political characters in St. Joan are a triumph of irreverent dialectic and penetrating understanding...
Resting in Madrid, Barbara Mutton, disillusioned with her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, announced a change of heart about Europe, too: "There are still some fine people here, but I've learned that Americans have the real, decent, good qualities which count in life. You can have all the glittering front that is left in Europe today. I've had enough...
...backers put up by far the stiffest fight. The Inverchapel Committee published a pamphlet (the Inverchapel Blast) filled with blurbs from such notables as Journalist Barbara (the Economist) Ward, the King's physician, U.S. General George C. Marshall ("Inverchapel is a leader among peace-loving people . . .") and General Dwight D. Eisenhower ("I am delighted ... Lord Inverchapel. . . friendly relations . . ."). From London came Author Harold Nicolson to speak for him (candidates themselves never appear). Deadpan and in piping voice, Nicolson began: "Lord Inverchapel is extraordinarily unconventional . . ." Students burst into shouts of "at his age" and "whooooo...