Word: wittiest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Shaw's latest and wittiest play to see our stage was presented Monday for the first time in Boston, by Mr. Faversham and his wonderful company. Mr. Faversham, having essayed, in the immediate past, the roles of a faun, a gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world...