The Archive · 1923

A CHORTLE BY

Objections to "Back to Methuselah:" Adam's Dress The Lord Chamberlain has' been making Mr. Bernard Shaw chortle. It is all about "Back to Methuselah,'' the long-drawn-out satire in which Mr. Shaw makes sport of the generations of men from before the Fall.

it has already been produced a in cycle form on the American stage and is in preparation.for performance at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Before licensing the play the Lord Chamberlain made a few conditions. In the first place the characters presented were to be decently clothed, which was taken to mean that Adam and Eve must not appear naked.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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