Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical School has received an unrestricted grant of almost $60,000 from the American Medical Association, Herbert A. Shaw, Director of Medical Information in the University News Office, announced yesterday...
Among Behrman's great circle of literary and artistic friends were Gabriel Pascal, Somerset Maugham and Sir Max Beerbohm, and about these people he tells some of his most entertaining anecdotes. One day, Pascal--the Hungarian producer who procured the screen rights to all of Bernard Shaw's plays--said to Behrman, "Sahm, you know I ahm illegitimate descendant Talleyrand." Two weeks later, Behrman met Pascal again and the producer said, "Sahm, did I tell you I ahm illegitimate descendant Metternich?" Recounting these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated...
...Doctor's Dilemma. Shaw's 52-year-old comedy-drama about the rights of genius and the wrongs of the medical profession is pertly entertaining...
...Doctor's Dilemma. Shaw's 52-year-old comedy-drama about the rights of genius and the wrongs of the medical profession makes a pertly entertaining piece of photographed theater...
Redhead (book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw; music by Albert Hague; lyrics by Miss Fields) puts musicomedy's million-dollar baby Gwen Verdon in a five-and-ten-cent storehouse of old theatrical gewgaws. The proof of her impishly awesome talent is not that she stops the show, which she does, but that she starts it-and sometimes startles it-into an amusing show of life...