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Actor Maurice Evans made the mistake of asking Author Bernard Shaw to join him in a transatlantic broadcast celebrating Man and Superman's record Broadway run. He was promptly winged with a Shavian shaft...
...world of the comics was never the same after two Cleveland teen-agers turned Superman loose in it. In 15 years, he made over $400,000 for Writer Jerome Siegel and Cartoonist Joseph Shuster, and inspired a score of imitators. Superman was the first cartoon hero to make the reverse jump from comic books to newspaper syndication...
...career that only weathered phrases were left. M.P.s rang what changes they could in the House last week. King himself declared with conscious modesty: "Today's record makes clear that to gain and to retain power in a free country . . . it is not necessary [to] be either a superman or a dictator...
Even by June, when Evans plans to close Man and Superman on Broadway after the longest run (some 270 performances) a Shaw play ever enjoyed, the royalties will not stop rolling in: Evans will take the play on a 57-city road tour. And this week on Broadway, the Theatre Guild will present Shaw's You Never Can Tell...
...Superman. Maurice Evans in Shaw's brilliant comedy (see above) about men v. women (TIME...