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
在按肖伯納寫的劇本演出的第一幕的場次間隙,肖伯納出來對觀眾說:“你們認為如何?”
當(dāng)時觀眾呆住了,但觀眾席馬上有一個人用盡了全部力氣叫道路:“垃圾!”
肖作出了一個殷勤的愛爾蘭式微笑。“我的朋友,”他聳聳肩膀并指著前面的觀眾說,“我十分同意你的觀點,但我們兩個怎么抵得過那么多人呢?