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My Dear Loraine: Bernard Shaw's Letters to an Actor
Ist Teil von
Theatre Notebook, 2021-02, Vol.75 (1), p.71-72
Ort / Verlag
London: The Society for Theatre Research
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Winifred Loraine quotes the remaining eleven in her 1938 biography of her husband, Robert Loraine: Soldier, Actor, Airman, although as Connolly states, there are significant omissions and inaccuracies. In another notable exchange, Shaw maintains his sense of humour to console Loraine after the actor suffered a serious leg injury before proceeding to insist, in strong terms, that walking with a limp should not deter Loraine from pursuing acting opportunities: "there is ... no reason why an actor should, like a Roman Catholic priest, be perfect in all his members in order to discharge his function" (31). Other key figures in Shaw's life also appear in these letters including Mrs Patrick Campbell; in a particularly comical passage, Shaw claims that her "sole notion of lighting is a spot lime in the glare of which her face flattens out into a white plate with two plums on it" (61).