Word: bourneuf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Current convention for producers of Shaw plays is to dress up the protagonist in whiskers to resemble George Bernard Shaw. Thus disguised, Actor Philip Bourneuf talks his way brilliantly through the heroically talky role of Sir Arthur Chavender. No drunken skipper, but a tired, shilly-shallying Prime Minister, Sir Arthur is discovered, when On the Rocks begins, fiddling aimlessly about the interior of No. 10 Downing Street while an angry mob howls in the streets outside. Halfway through Act I, he receives a visit from a mysterious Lady in Grey (Estelle Winwood) who whisks him away to a sanatorium...
Jessie C. Bourneuf, of Chestnut Hill, vice-president of the Association marshalled the undergraduates...
...Philip Bourneuf, again showing his superiority over the rest of the group, gives a singularly sensitive performance of the affectionate Segard, but despite this, one fails to feel the sadness that should be his, but rather the joy and expectation of Therese and Bastien. To Miss Fitzpatrick and Francis Cleveland belong the more intriguing roles; to Bourneuf, the kudos for better execution...
...daughter, a doubtful marriage, a father's curse, a self-sacrificing lover, an heroic halfwit, and-a happy ending. Flitting in and out of the story is Pittances Green, clown extraordinary, whose puns and drolleries, no less than his outlandish costumes, lighten the play tremendously. The versatile Phillip Bourneuf plays the part to perfection...
...While Bourneuf easily wins top rating, the other members of the cast vary upward from adequate to excellent. But the Stagers are to be complimented more for their fidelity tin recreating the atmosphere of the time with painstaking attention to costuming and other stage business than for their acting...