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Four acts and an epilogue, subdivided into seven scenes, are required for the author's development of Joan from country maid to Saint. At the outset she appears at Vaucouleurs, where with a few brief sentences she persuades the testy Robert de Baudricourt to grant her soldiers and a horse to carry her to the Dauphin closeted at Chinon. Her recognition of the latter in the crowded throne room, his conversion to her standard follow. Shaw then revels in an arrant trumpery when he changes before your eyes the course of a contrary wind?the Maid's "miracle" on joining...
...trifle too cold and expressionless to be quite convincing. Jane Houston, as the secretary, goes to the opposite extreme, with rather too much vigor; the other parts except that of Drew, the detective, are minor, but unusually colorful. Jackson, the too-amiable operative, and Jeanette, Miss Stockbridge's maid, have little to say, but they make a definitely pleasant impression, while Pay-son, the dubious man servant and "The Trouble Hunter" from the phone company have distinct characters in spite of their infrequent appearances...
...expected that the Joan, brought to us by Shaw, is the Joan of our first love. She does not trail clouds of glory, nor converse with winged angels, nor does she fasten her locks within the confines of a regulation halo. She is the lass rather than the Maid...
...Weeks promised her protection and put in a good word for his friend Captain Coolidge, to which she made answer: "Why does he not come himself and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing I am surely not worth the winning. Surely a maid worth courting must also be worth the asking. Granted Calvin is silent, he must find words if he wants me. If he seeks me let him ask; till then, I answer silence with silence...
...complete cast follows: Ruth Actopel Miss Elizabeth James Dolores Actopel Miss Mary Sands Mrs. Actopel--"Ma" Miss Doris Halman Mr. Actopel--"Pa" E. P. Goodnow '17 Horace Actopel A. F. Ward Gordon Actopel Harold Bates Raleigh Crane IV C. S. Howard '20 Ellie--"Pennsylvania Dutch maid" Miss Angela Morria Dr. Pfeffer D. W. Keyes '25 Rossiter W. L. Smyser Raleigh Crane III "The Boss" Thomas London