Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SIXTEEN SELF SKETCHES (207 pp.)-Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead...
...held up its release and later parted company with Director Huston. At the presentation, Jack Warner had to listen to a pointed slight in Huston's acceptance speech: "If this [the Oscar] were hollow and had a drink in it, I would toast-Henry Blanke [Treasure's self-effacing producer...
...economy, the affair was low-budgeted and undersized compared to past performances of the town's most profitable yearly publicity stunt. Only two searchlights cut into the overcast outside the theater; half a dozen blocks away, three Hollywood searchlights blazed gaudily for the opening of a new self-service gas station...
Father Shaw's notes on the Shavian infancy are included in George Bernard's own latest book, bits & pieces of autobiography called Sixteen Self Sketches. In Days With Bernard Shaw, Stephen Winsten, a writer and lecturer who lives next door to Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw...
Reluctant to share the fate of Charles Dickens ("so much is known about him that might have happened to Wickens, or Pickens, or Stickens that his biographers have obliterated him"), Shaw devotes most of Self Sketches to correcting "what had been overlooked or misunderstood."* Sample restatements: ¶ "I have not yet ascertained the truth about myself. For instance, how far am I mad, and how far sane? I do not know." ¶ "Aunt Ellen, though humpbacked, was not a midget...