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Some critics left the premiere growling that Clyde (played by Alexander Kirkland) was a cad, that no matter how far back one probed to fix the blame for his fate, there was no excuse for indicting Society. Meanwhile, the theatre was resounding with jubilant whistles and applause not only from radical Group Theatre sympathizers but from many a nonpartisan theatregoer who had just been given a mighty exhibition of theatrical illusion.