Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently at Capetown, South Africa, where he has been taking a vacation, George Bernard Shaw took tests for an automobile driver's license. He asked the examiner: "How long have you driven?" "Thirty years." Observed Shaw: "Then you soon will drive as well as I." Last week Driver Shaw drove a rented automobile into a ditch, jolting himself severely and injuring his wife's wrist. Meanwhile he heard from London that his ten-year-old fight to have a garbage dump removed from the vicinity of his Hertfordshire home had finally succeeded...
Gathered from the company and school of Eva Le Gallienne's New York Civic Repertory Theatre, the Studio Players have already made two appearances before Cambridge audiences this year. George Bernard Shaw's "Great Catherine" and Ibsen's "When We Dead Awake" are the two productions that the New York group has already given on the Brattle Hall stage...
...talked too much. He told the President all about what I was about to tell him about my world tour. Pat and Bernard Shaw are the only two people who can outtalk me. I had the President stopped. . . . While I was in there we fixed up all the affairs of the world. The only thing we didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government...
...first time in history three Harvard men are to have parts in a Wellesley dramatic production; the three actors involved are J. C. Cort '35, Bernard Meyer '32, and Charles Sedgwick '34. These men, two of whom, Cort and Sedgwick, are members of the Harvard Dramatic Club, are to have parts in "The Man of Destiny", which is being produced by the Wellesley course in Play Production...
...Studio Players are gathered from the company and school of Eve Le Gallienne's New York Civic Repertory Theatre. They have firmly established their reputation as an organization of exceptional worth by two productions which they gave in Brattle Hall at an earlier date. One of these was G. Bernard Shaw's "Great Catherine" and the other Ibsen's "When We Dead Awake." Both were exceptionally well performed...