Word: bernardes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote Critic Hannen Swaffer of the London Daily Express after witnessing, last week in Malvern, the English premiere of The Apple Cart, George Bernard Shaw's first play in six years...
...overshadowed by their maneuvers. Their talk embraces: incompetency of U. S. criticism, monogamy v. polygamy, decline of detective stories, postures of college radicals, difficulty of censoring silent cinema, cosmopolitan U. S. interior decoration, Manhattan's dead gentility, U. S. bibulous and Prohibited. U. S. "boobisms," name-changing, sentimentality Bernard Shaw's chief charm, U. S. lack of romantic or musical appreciation, social rise of the Southern Negro, exercise unnecessary, emasculation of U. S. actors by Anglicizing, a six-page list of the sex-business in one season's plays, the U. S. "itch for bogus purple...
...Chicago. Bernard Roa, Mexican, 16 bullet scars on back, wanted for murder. Roa broke out of Joliet prison, killed a deputy warden. Warning: "Dangerous...
Chairman of a New York state commission to develop Saratoga Springs as a moderate-priced health resort is Bernard Mannes Baruch, Manhattan financier-philanthropist. His father, Dr. Simon B. Baruch of Camden, S. C., was one of the first to recognize Saratoga water's medicinal value. Last week Commissioner Baruch and a committee of U. S. physicians began a study tour of the spas of Germany, beginning at Bad Kissingen, Bavaria...
Birthday. George Bernard Shaw, in London. Age: 73. After asking that news of his birthday be suppressed, Septuagenarian Shaw issued a message: "If anybody in the United States thinks my 73rd birthday is in any way significant, I will say I think it exceedingly indelicate...