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for his actions, and there will be presented, but this would have some, no doubt, who will seize been difficult, and in any case, it on his defence for having dared must be remembered that the to rewrite the last act of "Cym-Board, besides having assessors beline" as the first sign either of and technical experts, will func- read it, however, one may grace or of sensility. Having tion mainly by sub-committees. say to which other members can be with relief that there is no co-opted. change. Mr. Shaw felt compell- Jed to justify his collaboration

with Shakespeare only because Future Development he had so often condemned his predecessors; he feels no unwor- The speech which Mr. Ormsby- thy scruples. (If one must have Gore delivered to the Board was precedents, he argues character-a wide-ranging and statesman- istically, look not to Cibber's like utterance, and may well form happy endings but to Mozart's the charter upon which the additions to Handel's Messiah.") Board will base its future policy. Few would deny that "Gymbe. One phrase seemed specially line" can do with repairs. In significant. Mr. Ormsby-Gore two famous letters to Ellen Terry said "The creation of this. Mr. Shaw himself pointed out a Board is merely one item in the few of its weaknesses on the programme of Colonial develop stage, and in an effort to improvement." It is interesting to hear it the Bumingham Repertory that there is a programme of Theatre long ago started a fash-Colonial development, but ion by playing it in modern diess. seems to be clear from the sug To Mr. Shaw it has the attrac-gestions for future work which tion that the characters are not he went on to offer, and from so hopelessly subservient to con- the reply made on behalf of his vention that they cannot be colleagues by Mr. Clement Day- brought up to date. Posthumus, ies, that the Board will, in course though sufciently conventional of time, as its work grows and to condenam his wife to death for further experience is gamed, it- alleged infidelity, later questions self tend to become a Colomal his own conduct in the right Marketing and Development Ibsenite spirit. Cannot the Board, Mr.

said, for ex other characters be brought up ample, the Board would have to date? The answer is, they "to investigate the present and can. Mr. Shay has not been con possible productive capacities tent to iron out the complica the Colomes, taking into con- tions of the last act, but h

has sideration the population, their made Imogen somewhat less of standard of development, "the womanly woman With soil, distance out having heard the new ver- transport faci

from

improved

to effect

sion, one would not like to give do, and what they can produce an opinion on its quality as can their produce verse. Our critic promises that and what can be Mr. Shaw's lines are better than such Shakespeare's worst, and no port one who has read that stupen in dous tirama "The Admirable Bashville would question Shaw's ability to write blank

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