Word: shaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of photographs of the actors and scenes from the play are shown with the masks. The production of "The Great God Brown" was the third given by the New England Repertory Theatre under the direction of Edwin Pettet, two of Shaw's "Androcles and The Lion," and "Heartbreak House" having been played in Boston in May and June. The fourth production, "Madchen in Uniform" will be presented for a week at Peabody Playhouse the end of November...
...Judge Mitchel shot to death gambling in Florida. Left me with 2 children. No. 2 husben, Harvie Brown Rumelision was froze to death from drinking, left 2 children. No. 3, Jim Henry Johnson, home, Macon. G. A. died of Bright deces, left 10 children. No. 4 husben Shaw Lewis died with stroke diging wells, left 11 children...
...Killarney, Ireland, a tailor produced in court a note of commendation from George Bernard Shaw as evidence of his skill. Interposed the judge: "I've noticed that Mr. Shaw wears the most appalling clothes...
...Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, introduce canny Impresario D'Oyly Carte, and evoke the artistic life of Victorian London. To garnish his text, Allvine has cribbed all the celebrated remarks of the day, making his chatter sound at times like a page from Bartlett's Quotations: Bernard Shaw pipes up with ''Some day Wagner will rank with Shakespeare and Shaw," Queen Victoria freezes her guests with "We are not amused," Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar, you will." A bright, attractive Gilbert & Sullivan crazy quilt, Knights of Song fails to be anything more because...
...Paris, the authoritative Beaux-Arts magazine noted Queen Elizabeth's recent purchase of a painting by Wilson Steer and a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John. Added the Beaux-Arts: this was the first occasion since before the reign of Charles I (1625-49) that the British Royal Family has acquired a picture solely for its artistic merits...