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"BERNARD SHAW
HIS SCHOOL DAYS AND' NON AGE
HARD STRUGGLE
George Bernard Shaw ones said that every man over forty is a scoundrel. He himself must there- fore have lived for thirty years in this regrettable condition. during this period few of us have noticed any marked signs of moral deterioration or even a
loss of vivacity or originality of mind. On the contrary we hear reports that he is still very much alive,
But
unremitting labour and soon ba- gan to earn money, but her son, who also lived in a whirligig of Iterary work, was an undisguised failure.
For three years Shaw did beca- alonal work in a London mar- chant's office and much of his "early writing" is to be found in cash books and records of trade transactions. But all the while he was dreaming of writing a novel, and in 1879 he perpetrated his first work of Action. He called It It will never be "Immaturity." published because Shaw "scrapped it" or rather wrote his second novel "The Irrational Knot" on
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with his brain, and still writing No publisher would look at histion" and the "Garrison Ladies" plays. I saw Shaw walking up work but,still undaunted, he Help Society," of both of which Whitehall Place the other day, wrote three more novels. Speak- Mrs. Luard is the leader.
Included in the programme He is a tall man with a trim anding of these, Mr. Shaw says: "J
will be a number of ladies and recall these five remote products well-knit figure looking as fit as
welkknown - local though he had been in training of my non-age as five heavy brown- gentleman, for a prize fight. He la as well paper parcels which were always amateur performers, and an en- trained bodily as he is intellec- coming back to me from some joyable evening is assured.
addition, there will be Highland tually, and I have noticed that he publisher, and raising the very often seems to get the better of serious financial question of the Dancing by members of the military bands of the regiment his opponent in a public debate sixpence to be paid to Messrs. K.O.S.B., and the full pipe and by sheer fitness. He arrives at 'a, Carter, Paterson & Co. the car will also be in attendance. public meeting with a sort of phy-riers, for passing them on to the sical elegance which seems to next publisher." petrify anyone who tries to argue with him, writes R. Thurston Hopkins, author of "This London," "London Pilgrimages" and "The
Lure of Sussex.”
Father's Failure
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary Meet- ing of the Shareholders of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation will be held on Satur- day, the 2nd day of February, 1929, at 12 o'clock noon at the City Hall Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong for the purpose of con- sidering, and if thought fit, pass- MACDONA PLAYERS ex-Civil Servant, capitalised his
¡ing the following resolution,
viz:-
That the Directors of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation be and they are. hereby requested and authorised) by and on behalf of the share- holders of the Corporation to take all such steps as may be necessary for the introduction of an Ordinance into the Legisla tive Council of the Colony of Hong Kong and for the enact-1 ment of the same by the Gov ernor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legio-|| lative Council thereof, in the terms of a print which, for the purposes of identification, has been signed by the Chlef Man- ager of the Corporation, in sub- stitution for the existing Ordin- ances (except as in such print ja mentioned) and Deed of Set- tlement of the Corporation.
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Shaw was born in Dublin on July 26, 1856. He was one of a large family, the head of which was a man whose means were scanty to the point of hardship. His father, George Carr Shaw, an
Published Serially
In 1884 two Socialist magazines published his novels in serial form and they attracted the atten tion of William Morris, William Archer, Oscar Wilde and Stevenson.
Many years ago I ventured to Interview Shaw. I tackled him at
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KEEP MOVING
a Fabian meeting, taking with me FRED COYNE'S OPENING SHOW
a note book containing a series of questions which I intended to ask
him.
AT STAR
"A NON-STOP REVUE"
There were about twenty questions in all but I think that
It is some years since Hong Kong Shaw cleverly evaded most of them. But another journalist was play goers have had the pleasure more fortunate and I remember of welcoming Fred Coyne, but those seeing the following answers and who remember him in pre-war days as producer and one of the prinel- questions in his note book:-
"What book In childhood madepal actors in the Bandman Opera the deepest Impression on your Company will be interested to know that he is bringing his own com- mind?"
for a short season of Intimate re pany to the Star Theatre, Kowloon,
vue, which commences on Monday
.
"I have no more recollection of my first book than I have of my
first meal. I read everything that came my way but I had to be en- couraged by my mother to per- Bevere at "Robinson Crusoe" until
Jan. 21. Mr. Coyne has gathered
pension, and purchased a flour- milling business. The venture turned out a complete failure and he lost every penny
of his life savings. Broken and disheartened Carr Shaw died a
few months after this misfortune. His wife, however, was not so easily dis- heartened. With great determina- tion she fought for recognition in the musical and literary circles of Dublin and soon attained a good position. She was a rare woman.
round him an exceedingly clever Her spirit was independent, her
little company, all experts in their mind cultivated, her manner gentle
various styles, and under his ex- and refined, and she was endow-he reached the desert island, after perienced guidance they present a ed with a keen sense of humour, which he carried me with him un- series of these clever and quick From her George Bernard Shaw aided. I acquired a very boyish moving shows which are so popular derived those qualities that have
(not childisk) taste for Shake-now-a-days. As far as touring is made him famous.
speare from the snippets printed concerned the company has put up
Selous' Shaw went to the Wesleyan beneath
illustrations. something which must be really a Connexional School at Dublin. Children's books, from the accurs-record; since leaving England they
have travelled An old boy of this school thus ed "Swiss Family Robinson" on-
through South described him to me as he remem-
wards, I always loathed and des- Africa, The two Rhodesins, the Bel- bers him in 1856: There was al-pised for their dishonesty, their gian Congo, Tanganyika Territory, ways a look of other-worldness hypocrisy, their sickly immorality Uganda, Kenya, Zanzibar, India, and their damnable dullness. My Ceylon, Siam and The Straits. To those who know Mr. Coyne's ability moral sense, like my literary taste,
as a producer it is hardly necessary was sound.
to mention the fact that the com- pany comes with a chorus of praise from all quarters. The season will
about young Shaw. There was a cartain hauteur about his manner that compelled attention. It. aeem- ed that he had never been young and his face as a boy was the same as the portraits which are
"What were your first literary efforts?"
"Novels I wrote five prodigious stories. If Anatole France had begun by imitating Zola he might have produced something like them."
published to-day. He was always feverishly hungry for information but he looked upon the school ays tem of learning lists of names and dates as senseless. Out of school hours he held little meetings In the playground and delivered lec-evolution?" tures in art and Hfe to the small boys. Even as a boy he combin-cellent. ed on extravagant fancy with a man, not an amoeba." "
"Which of your books mark out the various stages in your literary
curious sort of coldness, and I can still see him giving a lecture on the uselessness of arithmetic and
brilliantly defending his theory when the headmaster tackled him."
friend he
Shaw, once told a never learnt anything worth re- membering at school. "It was a
place," he said, "where they put
"Caesar' and 'Horace' into the hands of small boys and expert- ed the result to be an elegant taste and knowledge of the world. took refuge in total idleness."
In London
I
In the year 1876 Shaw's mother decided to go to London, and her son Bernard accompanied her. It was a very adventurous move for they arrived in the great capital without a single friend and with A very meagre supply of money. Mrs. Shaw threw herself into the midst of the most strenuous and
"My books are all uniformly ex- I don't evolve. I am a
"What was your first novel and your first play?"
"First
novel. 'Immaturity' written in 1879 and never pub lished. First play "Widowers' Houses produced in 1892, but the first two acts were written long before, probably in 1884."
Did you And it easy to earn your living by writing."
open with the "non-stop dancing revue" "Keep Moving," a plece. which is said to in every way justi- fy its title. Seats for the entire season may now be booked at Mou- tries and the Star Theatre,
“LOVE `HUNGRY ”
NEW COMEDY DRAMA AT QUEEN'S
Dainty and charming Lois Moran is the featured player in an excel- lent new comedy drama "Love Hungry which is being shown at the Queen's Theatre to-day. The story is extremely interesting, and concerns the adventures of a young girl who has many admirers but de- "No. It took me nine years to cides to wait until the "right one" earn nine pounds. ·Editors and comes along-and when he does-- publishers avoided me like the trouble begins. The hero is Law- plague. Of all the literary hawk-rence Gray, a player who is rapidly ers in London, I was the most unbecoming popular with local movie lucky."
fans. In this picture he appears as the newspaper man who writes to correspondents on the matter of love and thinks he knows all about the subject until told by someone that he doesn't. With- many piquant situations and not a few laughs, the story moves rapidly to a splendid climax in which both aldes agree that there is no end to what may be learned about. lovel
[When Shaw was at the Wesleyan Connexional School in Dublin, the headmaster was. Mr. Crack, uncle of Mr. A. H. Crook, headmaster of Queen's College, Hong Kong.]
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