Word: shaws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Bernard Shaw: "It is impossible to have a state of affairs in which one person may shoot another and then allege it was a sort of suicide by deputy. Suicide cannot be permitted by deputy...
...really likes the theatre and is well enough to take it straight without music, the King-Emperor went two nights later to chuckle at Marie Tempest ("the British Mrs. Fiske") in St. John Ervine's comedy The First Mrs. Fraser. Pieces passed up by Their Majesties included Shaw's new Apple Cart, Barrie's old Dear Brutus, and a magnificent Gilbert & Sullivan revival sequence at the Savoy Theatre, now sumptuously rebuilt and gone modernist...
Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is as emotional as his own typewriter, and this defect, which he parades as did the fox in the fable, has stood in the way of his writing a great play. He despises love, and therefore cannot appeal deeply to mankind." Wagner's Parsijal is dismissed as "that bizarre compound...
...School; D. G. Way, Thayer Academy; A. W. Weil, Jr., Choate School; David Weld, Milton Academy; G. G. Wells, Exeter; R. C. Wells, Exeter; Taggart Whipple, Noble and Greenough School; J. M. Wilfand, Boston Latin School; Max Wilfand, Boston Latin School; A. F. Wilson, Jr., Exeter; B. A. Winter, Shaw High School; E. B. Wood, Santa Barbara School; Edward Yeomans, Jr., Thacher School; Hamilton Young, Newton Country Day School
...London opening last fortnight the play had fair success. Actress Foster is not the only person Critic Hannen Swaffer has belittled. He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller." Playwright Shaw did not smack Critic Swaffer's face. Instead, at the annual luncheon of the Critics' Circle last month in London, when Toastmaster St. John Ervine divided dramatic critics into three kinds?"critics, reporters and Hannen Swaffer"?Shaw said all dramatic critics were very bad, compared Swaffer to the late great Playwright-Critic William Archer,* said that Archer was worse...