Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-08 | Page 6 | Shaw's Unfortunate Humor

Shaws Shaw's nate Humor George Georgo Bernard ernard Shaw is cursed by his sense o of humor and he is isa isa isn a n greater playwright when he he- heis is serious Heywood H B Broun roun n critic and col columnist declares i in McCalls McCall's He- He Calls Call's for June II Saint Joan remains the finest thing the stage of our out day has to offer This work of Shaws Shaw's old age Is the one in which h he shows his greatest vigor Of course he ho tries too hard The tragedy of ot George Bernard Shaw is that a a. man with a message mes message mes sage aage has obscured it so confoundedly con con- founded I with quips even though some of them happen to be first rate I But he cannot wholly escape escape es- es cape capo the compulsion to be comic What an unrivaled genius Shaw would have been but for the tho fact that the tho wicked fairy godmother popped in at tho the last minute with her curse saying And this child shall also have a sense of humor