The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927

The Doctor's Dilemma. The commendable industry of retrieving Bernard Shaw's plays proceeds pungently at the Theatre Guild. Not for a dozen years has Manhattan heard Shavian firecrackers go off around the ankles of the medical profession. The sputter of novelty has been muted by time and by an increasing propensity on the part of the profession itself to admit how many, many things it cannot cure. But for those who still regard medicine as magic, it will be a painless purge. For those who still more reasonably revere as magic an agile comedy...

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