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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: MAN OF THE CENTURY (969 pp.)-Archibald Henderson-Appleton-Century-Crofts...
Fifty-one years ago, Bernard Shaw found his Boswell in Archibald Henderson, a stage-struck mathematics professor from the University of North Carolina. In 1911 and 1932, Henderson produced "authorized" biographies of Ireland's cranky genius. This book lacks the official imprimatur, because it was completed after Shaw's death, but it is the most massively, not to say crushingly, definitive Shaw biography ever written...
...thoroughly documented for the time when Shaw was a Dublin clerk as for the time of his London preeminence. Yet the total effect is one of mystery. All his life Shaw shouted his ideas from the world's rooftops. But even an "authorized" biographer like Archibald Henderson is full of hesitancies in deciding which of Shaw's contradictory views is the one he truly believed, and whether or not there was a true face beneath the many masks he wore. All he knows for certain-along with millions of theatergoers-is that all the masks show the touch...
Sending a Library of Congress audience into a gale of scholarly snickers, aging (79) Biographer Archibald Henderson, a perennial examiner of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, trotted out a brand-new after-Shavian notion. It seems, related Henderson, that Shaw once got a letter that got the better of him. It was addressed to George Bernard Shawm. In a beard-tossing fury, Shaw roared to his wife that his correspondent could not even spell the name of the world's greatest man. Moreover, fumed G.B.S., there was no such word as "shawm." Shaw's wife, one of the world...
True Cross Section. Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn taught at Brandeis until his death in January. Columnist Max Lerner and Critic Louis Kronenberger commute from Manhattan to give courses. E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish and W. H. Auden have lectured on modern poetry, and such theater celebrities as Marc Con nelly and Arthur Miller have taught contemporary drama. "A school," says Sachar, "is not a curricular philosophy. It is the people you bring...