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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DAYS WITH BERNARD SHAW (327 pp.)-Stephen Winsten-Vanguard...
Ultimate Discoveries. No longer driven by the goad of poor gentility, Millionaire Shaw is as ready as any tycoon to bemoan the woes of being wealthy. In his conversations with Neighbor Winsten, the Shavian past & present unroll like an endless, multicolored ribbon...
Father Shaw's notes on the Shavian infancy are included in George Bernard's own latest book, bits & pieces of autobiography called Sixteen Self Sketches. In Days With Bernard Shaw, Stephen Winsten, a writer and lecturer who lives next door to Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw...
...included: Shaw's reprimand of Neighbor Winsten. Writing (to the London Times) of Days With Bernard Shaw, G.B.S. barked: "It is a charming book . . . When I say anything silly or absurd to Mr. Winsten ... he corrects me ... by substituting what he himself would wisely and sensibly have said." However, Shaw admits, "When Turner had to paint a view of a city, and found the church or the castle ... ill situated, he put them in their right places and gave us a landscape worth a thousand photographs...
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, a fun-loving, hard-working Hollywood writing-directing team (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend), came home from Europe conscious of one big difference between U.S. and European movies. To the New York Post's Archer Winsten they explained...