Word: shavianly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high old time of it. All day long a procession of literary pilgrims plodded through his Ayot St. Lawrence home near London. "I don't like this," he howled. "They've come to see the animal just because he's 90." But Shavian wit was up to the occasion. Some birthday shafts...
...wrote George Bernard Shaw, 89, of Artist George Fredric Watts, who would be 137 if alive today. Last week a British biography of Watts arrived in the U.S. (The Laurel and the Thorn, by Ronald Chapman). Along with it came a Shavian review in the London Sunday Observer. The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required. Shaw's review proved that one of the six, auburn-haired actress Ellen Terry, means a lot more to 89-year-old Shaw-even today-than she ever...
...plays. One reason may be that it contains almost nothing to weigh it down. It is Shaw on a holiday. His account of how a phonetics expert transforms a Cockney flower girl into the likes of a duchess is first & foremost good fun. It is a highly satirical, wryly Shavian fairy tale-but a fairy tale for all that...
...over the magazine. "I was comforted," said young Yeats, after Henley had laid a heavy pencil on his lyrics, "by my belief that [he] also rewrote Kipling." It was "exceedingly characteristic" of Henley, said George Bernard Shaw, to be deeply puzzled by Shaw's fury when a Shavian article in praise of Mozart was "edited" by Henley into a savage attack on Wagner...
...versatile career has included such checkered roles as Elizebeth Barrett Browning, St. Joan, Juliet, and the lead in "Bill of Divorcement," her first prominent part. Although "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" extended to 900 performances, Miss Cornell's favorites are Shavian and Shakespearian roles. As she has no other plans beyond her current production, she may perform "The Barretts" again for a year's run in army camps. Her husband, director Guthrie McClintic, who directed "Lovers and Friends," co-decides with her in the selection of all her manuscripts, she revealed...