Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tunnel, which runs from the Weeks Memorial Bridge to north of the Museum, will be broken into at four places, including the front of Lowell House, where digging has already begun, Saunders D. Shaw of the contracting company said...
Posturing Conceits. The networks also offered caviar to the general: NBC collaborated with Maurice Evans in a revival of Bernard Shaw's 58-year-old comedy about the American Revolution, The Devil's Disciple. The Shavian jape had a slow first act (more Shaw's fault than the producer's), but when Dennis King swept onstage as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, he and Actor Evans had a rousing time matching paradoxes and genteel insults. On CBS, Omnibus journeyed back 184 years to resurrect Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, with a polished cast (Michael Redgrave...
Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill. Oldtimers bitterly blamed the shrinkage of the Kemsley empire on uninspired management and unbudging conservatism both in politics and news treatment (Kemsley demands "clean crime, not sordid crime"). Newsmen especially resented how Kemsley shut down the Sunday Chronicle without an advance word to his staff. One reporter was phoning in a football story when the operator cut him off in the middle: "Sorry, sir, the paper has been discontinued." Left March. The staunch Tory politics of the Kemsley Glasgow papers will veer left of center under New Owner King, who considers himself an independent...
...human range, and as they marshal and maneuver on the stage, the audience feels caught and carried in the icy passion of a superhuman chess game in which the stakes are life or death for more than Joan. Compared of course to the virile mace-work of George Bernard Shaw in his Saint Joan, it is sometimes oversubtle rapier play in the Gallic fashion that scores points but does not really make a wound. The actors, however, under brilliant coaching by Director Joseph Anthony, use their weapons with such skill and fury that the beholder can often mistake words...
...sent straight to scholastic hell: a better-class boarding school in New England. "It was all girls." Next fall she persuaded her family to send her to Miss Hewitt's Classes in Manhattan, where she took Broadway for her major subject. For the drama class she played Shaw's Saint Joan, and was offered a Broadway job as an understudy, but her parents said she was too young (18) to quit school...