The Clever Answer
Stepping out between the acts at the first production of one of his plays, bernard Shaw said to the qudience: “What do you think of it?”
This startled everybody for the time being, but presently a man in the pit assembled him scattered wits and cried: Rotten!”
Show made a curtsey and melted the house with one of his Irish smiles.”My friend,” he said, shrugging his shoulders and indicating the crowd in front.” I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?”
巧妙的回答
在按肖伯纳写的剧本演出的第一幕的场次间隙,肖伯纳出来对观众说:“你们认为如何?”
当时观众呆住了,但观众席马上有一个人用尽了全部力气叫道路:“垃圾!”
肖作出了一个殷勤的爱尔兰式微笑。“我的朋友,”他耸耸肩膀并指着前面的观众说,“我十分同意你的观点,但我们两个怎么抵得过那么多人呢?