Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1929 — Page 10

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SHAW WITH LAUGH , AND THAT IS SHAW Theatre Guild Brings in the Twins of a Mind That Is More > Than Funny: It’s Great and Even Beyond That. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN SHAW with a laugh. That is something. Shaw with a brain. Shaw direct. Shaw indirect. I am probably all nuts when I tell you that Shaw is Just mental fun and so is his “Pygmalion ” All of this “middle class stuff' mixed up with the high flower stuff is Just a laugh. And what a laugh! There is more than pain in remembering Mrs. Patrick Campbell and ah of her dramatic elegance trying to give Shaw the fine touch of dramatic what have you. These Theatre Guild players have a certain delight in knowing what is right with Shaw. He is fun. Just that in “Pygmalion.” His great intelligence does not worry me one bit. He is wild fun.

As I am telling you about Shaw% I will not get him mixed up with a man known as Wells. This guy Shaw has been made human by the Guild. He is burlesque in ‘‘Pygmalion” with that fine dash of understanding known by the name of

common sense. And the more common sense you have the nearer you will get to the Guild idea of Shaw-. There is , io star making you buy “Pygmalion.” You buy now “Pygmalion” because Shaw pokes fun ar.d because this !un is brought to life by the Guild. T hat is enough and plenty. No use to go Into detail concerning

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the flower girl who went by-by into a mental voyage with a nut by the name of Henry Higgins and his mental sexual caretaker by the name of Colonel Pickering. No real indecegt sexual harm conies to this dame who sells flowers The poor fool develops a soul or something. The poor professor in the experiment develops nerves and a bunch of talk. And so there is no twin bed idea about “Pygmalion.” Everything is so mentally rough and so perfectly decent that the sea buyer gets the laugh from such a fine excursion in what have you behind all the smart experiment. Now to the cast. I will forget Mrs. Pat who first gave me the introduction to “Pygmalion.” The Guild does not terrify me. Here is an organization that knows that Shaw has real fun. Tons of it. They tackle it as such. So we will record those who win in the fun. Elliot Cabot is immense in his fun. That is until he tackles that last act. Something slipped in his Henry Higgins. Most of those present in that last act last night slipped. They seemed to forget Shaw. But up until that time you had a bunch of Shaw fun delivered as he would want it done. Cabot’s Higgins is very much Shaw up to the last act. Immense with that one reservation. The same with Frieda Inescort as Eliza Doolittle. Just near perfect fun until about five terrible minutes in that last act. Percy Waram is Colonel Pickering. The real thing that one would expect an intelligent and an honest actor to do with Shaw. Both attributes are necessary In making Shaw come to life on the stage. And don't forget the masquerade of fun that Dudley Digges puts over as Alfred Doolittle. Gigantic fun in his hands is this middle class Doolittle. And don't fail to pay attention to Ruby Hallier as Mrs. Pearce. And so you have Shaw about 90 per cent of the time magnificently done. And that is 90 per cent better than I have ever seen his “Pygmalion.” At English's tonight. Wednesday matinee and night. Then “Major Barbara.” Also by Shaw. a a a GIRLS HAVE NICE VARIETY ACT When I was .seeing Helen Johns and her Glorious Girls I had the impression that I was hearing a group of young ladies who were getting ready for a select sorority entertainment at college. When you realize that Rudy Vallee really got his start in a university jazz orchestra, then you will understand that I am not throwing

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