Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most interesting letters in the collection is a Shaw editing job on Golding Bright's trial review of Sardou's Odette...
...There is no way of becoming a drama critic," fired back Shaw in his first letter. "It happens by accident." The accident never happened to Golding Bright, but the accidental correspondence lingered on for 34 years. Now published for the first time, it consists more of literary shavings than true Shavian glitter. Shaw gave his advice off the top of his head, but since there was more top to the G.B.S. head than most, his advice, aside from a few personal quirks, is better than most. Samples...
ADVICE TO A YOUNG CRITIC AND OTHER LETTERS (208 pp.) - George Bernard Shaw, with notes by E. J. West-Crown...
...curtain fell on the opening night of Arms and the Man, April 21, 1894, with the audience clapping and calling for the author, George Bernard Shaw stepped to the footlights to be greeted with one loud, clear "Boo!" Arching his Mephistophelian brows (as red in his 37th year as his beard), G.B.S. addressed himself to the lone dissenter: "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you; but what are we two against so many?" Shaw didn't know it at the time, but he had won himself a slightly pesky pen pal. Within the week, the booer, a brash...
...Take your mind off such things," Major Barbara exclaims in Shaw's play. "We never think of money or success. When all money is spent on the Army we pray for more; and it comes: it always comes." Unlike the Salvation Army in Major Barbara, Combined Charities at the College thinks continually about money and success, but neither seems to come...