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Continued from race Om
you said. "I will "not call my own wire
Britomart: It Is not good taste" (Instead
of GOOD SENSE) su that your subse
quent contemptuous reference to found
llnps being drilled and disciplined into
good taste which to you Is, of course,,
im-reiy moral cowardice) made It Is es
pecially disastrous. In the same -way, by
sulnnittlng the word crime for poverty in
the last scene, jou wiped out the -whole
play with a single word. TJndcrshaft's
whole political system Is founded on his
conception of poverty as a crime.
"If jou want to keep the foundry in
the ramlly you had better find an eligible
foundling and marry him to Barbara'1
sounds bad, because of the resemblanoe
in sound between foundry and foundling.
Better say "if you -want to keep the tor
pedoes In the family," etc Then there
can dc no mistake.
You are frightfully reckless about the
exact words In passages of rather deli
cate comedy: for instance, the question
ing of Stephen To my car there is a
world of difference between saying "A
philosopher, eh?" (your version) and "A
philosopher, perhaps, eh?" (my version).
And -the whole speech beginning "Come,
come; don't be so devilishly sulky: it's
boyish," sounds like emptying an awk
ward sackful or words as fast as pos
sible. Almost every sentence would bear
a change of tone.
And now for the main point, on which
the rate of the play depends. If ou once
weaken or soften after "Come, come, my
danglltcr; don't make too much of your
little Unpot tragedy," we are all lost.
TJndershaft must go over everybody like
Niagara trora that moment. There must
be no sparing of Barbara no Quarter lor
any one. Ills energy must be proof
against everybody and everything. If you
get confused for a moment you will
soften on such turns to Barbara as "You
talk of your hair-saved ruffian In "West
Ham" or "You know he wilt Don't be a
hypocrite. Barbara," There must be no
check on the half-saved ruffian; on the
contrary, you should keep a little In re
serve lor letting yourself go there. You
mnst sweep everything before you until
Lady B. knocks you off your perch for &
moment; and even then you come up
buoyant the next moment with your
conundrum. It will be a bit of a feat to
keep up this game through about 12
speeches, but you can do irand I don't
know any one else on the stage who
could. Conviction and courage, that Is
what he must be full of, and there is
no Toom lor anything smaller or prettier.
So put your last farthing on these few
pages and good luck to you.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.
10 Adelphl Terrace, W. C.
My dear Ctlvert:
I ace with disgust that the papers all
say that your Undershaft was a magnifi
cent piece of acting and "Major Barbara"
a rottenly undramatic play. Instead of
pointing out that "Major Barbara" Is a
masterpiece and you the most infamous
amateur that ever disgraced the boards.
Do let me put Cremlin into it. A man
who could let the seven deadly sins go
for nothing could sit on a hat without
making an audience laugh. I have taken
a box for Friday and had a hundred
weight of cabbages, dead cats, eggs and
gingerbecr bottles slacked in it. Every
word you fluff, every speech you nnnct.
I will shy something at you. Beoro you
go on the stage I will Insult you until
your temper gets the better of your lines.
You arc an Impostor, a sluggard, a block
head, a shirk, a maligner. and the worst
actor that ever lived or ever will live. I
will apologize to the public for engaging
you. I will tell your mother of jou
Barker played you off the stage; Cremlin
dwarfed you; Bill annihilated jou; Clare
Greet took all ejes from you. If you do
not recover yourself next time, a thunder
bolt will end you. If j-ou are too lazy to
study the lines, ril coach yon In them.
That last act MOST be saved, or I'll
withdraw the play and cut you off with
a shilling. Yours ever. G. B. S.
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THE FRANKLIN FILM MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
has appealed to the Common Pleas Court from the
decision of the censors and is determined if necessary
to carry the fight to the Supreme Court, so that the
picture may be presented as intended by the author,
or not at all.
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