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George Bernard Shaw is forever being tempted by the emissaries of Hollywood. Here comes Mr. Jesse Lasky who offers him $75,000 for the film rights so the only Shaw novel "Cashel Byro Profession." The mere offer would be sufficiently interesting, but the shrewd Mr. Lasky has even more delightful things in store. If he succeeds in obtaining the rights he intends and most appropriately to sign Mr. Glene Tunney to play the pugilist. No one could be better fitted for the role; like Shaw's hero Tunney has gained fame as the student heavy weight. What he does...
Whether or not the amazing cinema will ever attain reality is up to Mr. Shaw and Mr. Lasky alone. Shaw is anything but a child when it comes to reckoning dollars. To be paid $75,000 for "Cashel Byron" would he admits be nice; but to get $250,000 would be over picker. A brief cable from Lasky rather spoiled that plan however and realizing that it would be curel to deprive the public of such a treat Mr. Shaw has come down to $100,000 at which sum the matter stands while the Paramount Pictures deliberate...
...George Bernard Shaw was one of the first men I met in London. I forget how I encountered him... He used to drop in and talk of his brilliant future and vow he would achieve it .... He had just written Cashel Byron's Profession, the only book of his I have ever read, and that because he gave it to me, though once later I heard him read Candida at H. W. Massingham's, and that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that...
...Free State has rejected the latest, and what many observers considered the most promising move for peace in Ireland. Archbishop Harty of Cashel, in Munster County, pro posed that an immediate truce be made, that the Republicans dump all arms under pledge that they be handed over to whichever party wins the next election. He pointed out that the Republicans would thus be spared the humiliation of surrender, and yet peace would be fully restored. Tom Barry, irregular leader, was friendly to the proposal. A motion in favor of its adoption was introduced into the Dail Eireann. But Kevin...