“Mr Firbank, who can write really witty nonsense.”
ATHENÆUM:
“But Mr Firbank has talents—a gift of style, a capacity to write dialogue, an appreciation of the beautiful and the absurd. With such gifts he might produce a real comedy of manners. It is to be hoped that he will.”
THE PRINCESS ZOUBAROFF
A COMEDY
With a Frontispiece and Decoration by
MICHEL SEVIER
LIVERPOOL POST AND MERCURY:
“In taking to play-writing he has obviously done the right thing. The Princess Zoubaroff is artificial comedy of the uncommonly successful sort.... The brilliancy, suavity and vim of the dialogue.... No present-day social-satirist has parodied more cruelly the elegant verbal affectations, the malicious chatter and fashionable slang that passes for wit and wisdom in Mayfair.”
SPECTATOR:
“Mr Firbank has an extraordinary knack of writing dialogue, and his entirely odious people move and breathe and are completely real. Perhaps some day Mr Firbank will give us a comedy that is not all satire; when he does it might prove an exceedingly brilliant acting play.”