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George Bernard Shaw scribbled on a postcard, "Plays of that author do not attract me; I never go to one if I can possibly help it," sent the postcard to Welwyn Garden City, Herts, England, where he had been invited to attend a performance of his Saint Joan...
Communal is the summer life of the five Brothers Pratt at Glen Cove, L. I. Around the rim of a water-skirted tract of 1,000 acres they have their homes-George at "Killenworth," Charles at "Seamoor," Harold at "Welwyn," Herbert at "The Braes," Frederic in Dosoris Lane. Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt, widow of Brother John, lives at "Manor House." Between them they have the yachts Carola, Dodger III, Whisper, Tuna. In the centre of their joint estate stand their stables and dairy farm, an institutional affair of red brick, manned by spick-&-span hostlers and milkmen...
...Little Theatre of Dallas, Tex., have marched home with the shining trophy. This year they did not compete. But the trophy had even further to go than to Texas when the fifth tournament was finished last week. The judges had little hesitancy in awarding it to a group from Welwyn Garden City,* England, for their repetition of Mr. Sampson, a comedy of Cornish village life with which the same players lately won the amateur play championship of their own country...