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Shaw's plays are studies in conciseness language, and manners. In all three of these he succeeded. Laurier Lister, director of this production, felt, however, that this was not enough, and included some extra-Shavian additions. These, unfortunately, did not come off well. It might, of course, be argued that the gods were against the players. For the first of these flairs was that of a 1928 London taxi (presumably the only one in the U. S. today). This in itself, was not a distraction, but was quite enjoyable. It did, however, create new problems--and here is where...
...elder Diefenbaker tutored young John, kept him reading nightly by the light of a coal-oil lamp. According to a family legend, John looked up one night from a biography of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Liberal Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911, and announced in a firm voice: "I'm going to be Premier of Canada." His mother smiled; John's studies went ahead as though high office were indeed the aim. He never even learned to milk...
...night a week after the election, as John Diefenbaker and Olive sat down to chicken sandwiches and ice cream in Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel, a telephone call came from Government House. While Olive wept softly with excitement, John was informed that on the following day Governor General Massey would ask him to form a new government of Canada...
...half century from 1900, when King, at 25, became Canada's Deputy Minister of Labor, until his death in 1950 after nearly 22 years as Prime Minister (a British Empire record), he had a hand in every key Canadian development. At his death he gave his Ottawa residence, Laurier House, crystal ball and all, as a museum and place of historical research. He left the 500 rolling acres of Kingsmere, ruins and all, to be added to the adjoining Gatineau National Park. Tens of thousands of Canadians now visit the two places, learning to think of their colorless Prime...
...contacts to his adored mother, whose constantly lighted portrait dominated King's Ottawa study and first awakened his interest in spiritualism. According to the spiritualists, King often attended two seances a week when he was in Britain, and communicated with other dead relatives, with his predecessor, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, with the late President Franklin Roosevelt, and even with Pat, his departed Irish terrier...