A few days ago, I revisited Blanco Posnet, one of
Mr. Shaw's most earnest tracts, at the Coliseum. It has teen played also, this week, by the Macdona Players at the Chelsea Palace. No doubt the movement and bustle of the wild-western crowd that comes to try, and if possible to lynch, Blanco, account for the selection of this play for the improvement of music-hall audiences. I hope they understand. Anyhow, Blanco's familiar, wrangling relations with the Deity are exposed with an engaging Shavian humour, in support of the old Puritan conviction that a naughty man may drive God out of his thoughts, without driving Him out of his heart. Blanco is bound to be " saved " ; though I found, at the Coliseum, that the audience thought him unregenerate because he went to get a drink after his acquittal.
RICUARD JENNINGS.
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