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"Noarast we got to a moat ration this wook was bulls' oyes."
The Astonishing Billy Rose
By Milton Shulman
13
London Express Service
BILLY ROSE, MRS. ROSE
When Shaw Met Shakespeare
G
between
EORGE Bernard Shaw, unrecorded mosting"
опе af Britain's the two men, with dialogue in
blank verse. greatest living literary
figures, seems not to make A third postwar play, "Far his 93rd year one of the Fetched Fables", is believed to deal with the state of the world most lively in his career. after atomic warfare. Nothing in
Though the tall, lean, while known about its future produc bearded Agure bent and tion. the years have taken their toll
No Illusions
Пого DUT
hio no false illusions about himself or his function in life!
of his physical, resources, his Mr Show all does his literary nimble genlus remains kechly work, as he always has done, provocative of discussion and between the hours of 10 a.m. and debate among British thinkers, 1 p.m. in a small summerhouse But the advance of modern in the garden of his lovely, Hert- society has deprived him of fordshire home at Ayot St, Law- many of the objects of his renos
youthful trony.
When Mr Shaw chooses to Thousands of pilgrims visit the start a controversy today. ho vilingo every year. For a long usually attacks what he regards time they found it impossible to as the injustico to authors like catch even o glimpse of the himself of Britain's Income tax house in which Mr Shaw lives lows
or the illogical peculiarities and which he has bequeathed to of English spelling.
the nation when he dies. The
recont
Recently
deunto In the researsonsabe by ************ng however,
British House
of Commons
on spelling
led
Mr Shaw to explain to the readers of the
London
*Times" how
ROBERT
BROWN
Mr
Show himself arranged for a large wrought- iron gate to be put up. Through this, · visitors
can
noy Acc
the house.
tho
Over gate, is the in
wasteful in time, energy and scription "Shaw's Corner.", materials was the spelling of many English words.
After spending the morning writing, Mr Shaw lunches at one o'clock-on the vegetarian
Even his interest in this sub- fare which has provided him r ject did not cauze him to forget the past with fertile fields for the message which he usually debate and controversy, sends to the "Times" Just before he sleeps until four o'clock.
Budget Day pleading for some Improvement in the lot of suc- cessful writers whose carnings
Then
make them liable to pay 19s, Od. IF the weather is suitable, he in the £1 sterling super tax,
may then take a slick and walk down the Inne to the Recently, Mr Shaw published village, and perhaps take tea an autobiographical work, un with friends there. der the titlo
By six "Sixteen Self Sketches, in which he shed 'clock, he is hume again, at his desk writing letters-and the new light on his parents, his world-famous Shavian post-. childhood in Ireland, his early cards--until, it 你 time for political activities and his lova dinner.
*
1
of This full programine demon- strates the spirit and intellectual
Shaw himself asserts that he is slowly losing his sight, hearing and sense of taste. He complains too of loss of memory. Visiters to his country retient report thus they and him "physically shrun- ken a little, but mentally alert* and amusing."
“My soul goes marching on:
and, if the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my
A few weeks hence, kus hely mind, and I knew better how to piny "Buoyant Billions" will feed and lodge and dress and have its British premiere at the behave, I might begin a politicsă Malvern Festival the postwar career as a junior civil servant resumption of the annual and evolve into a capable Cabiner
to pay
for the privilege of acquences of the Marshall Plan.life, Readers detected that Shaw printing them.
When he looks back on his had earlier suppiled parts This sudden Success has brash days when he asked King this same narrative to blograph- TN the tiny package of fought, sung, talked and brate inevitably led to many quers Boris of Bulgarin to sell him ers who had published studies of power of this man of 13. Mr.
humanity known boozled his way to the pinnacle tions about the authorship of some elephants or wired Lord his career.
of Broadway eminence. Billy Rose are wrapped
By the time he was 10 he is column. "They claim I have Halifax for the exclusive rights four Jumbo-sized careers was the prize exhibit in a fierce a brother with three heads and to exhibit Rudolph
Much of the remainder of the he Hess, shorthand expert, song competition between two rival 11 arms who writes it for me" rather regrets this transformin-book corrected assessments of
said writer,
now started to himself which Mr Shaw found showman
He and shorthand systems.
But there is no tion. "I have had Roso
he faulty. achieved the columnist.
Incredible speed doubt that Rose writes his deal in understatements."
Shaw will be 03 on July 20, of 280 words a minute and the
articles himself with the aid told me, "and I'm not sure that Each one has brought him wealth and fume, Together accolade of the world's fastest of one or two researchers who I like the new Billy Rose as much as I did the old pirate I dig up some of the facts. shorthand writer. they have kept this 49-year-
now before." But there was little future in old synthesis of P. T. Barnum. waiting for
He spends about three to five a world to start hours painfully polishing Irving Berlin and O. Henry 3 speaking 280 words
up minute, each column, and the resultant busy as a juggler twirling four
and flose decided there balls while doing a soft-shee
was style is a faithful mirror of the in money
Whic dance and balancing a goldfish business.
song-writing way Rose thinks, talks and acts. bowl on, the tip of his nose.
In fact, the ink smudges on his
"I am no politician or pundit, Theatre in his honour. When Minister in another hundred In the past year he has nar-
. Setting about. his task with fingers have become so absorb- his activities rowed
down to the detachment of an accoun. ed in his blood that today his but merely an amiable, semi-produced in Zurich last October, years or so", Me Shaw wrote in
this play was given a polite but a new postscript to bewildered little fellow who
a recent say his piece," he unenthusiastic reception. writing a column three times a tant, he analysed the song hits writing is the most important wants to
edition
of one of his plays. George Bernard Shaw is now week, brondensting five minutes of the past three decades. This of his many activities.
said. "My column will remain
"Buoyant Billions" was Mr
something of a National Institu- daily, finishing a books run- showed him that
popular as long as I don't most popu Sobering Influence
Shaw's first play for ten years; ton. In addition to the constant Horseshoe lar aing his Diamond
songs contained
forget that I'm primarily doing syllabir
but since writing it he has been sincam of visitors to Ayot St. night-club which scats 750 variations of the "oo" sound HE realisation that he now n vaudeville show."
busy with others. Ils disciples Lawrence, he receives
correspon- T people, and managing the Zieg- and sentimental phrases which
has an. audience of some
That is the ideal philosophy await with keen interest a new dence from all over the world: could be easily remembered by 30,000,000 people has had a for n man who still gets his play he has written for six appeals for charity, appeals for tongue-tied lovers.
sobering influence on Rose.
biggest thrill whon someone marionettes, which is also to be opinions on the pet fetishes of His conversation
days calls him. The Greatest Show-produced at the Malvern Fes- his correspondents, appeals for "Barney lends to concentrate on
tival. man in the World.
help to budding authors, a battery of Ave tele- Google with the Goo-goo-googly topics as the Iron Curtain, star-
Called
and "Shakespeare Eyes." "It's Only a Papor
(London Express Service: Shaw," It describes "a hitherto
(Continued on Page 5) phones and by moving rapidly Moon," and "I Found a Minion vatlon in Calcutta and the con -in-a-variety—of-directions-for-Dollar Baby-in-a-8-and-10-Cent;
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feld Theatre, which he owns.
This feat of energetie vie-
he accomplishes tuosity
by working from a bedroom-office with
35,000-Mile Tour NEEDING a holiday from this exhausting maelstrom, he set with his cx-swimming chum- a 15- plon wife Eleanor, on week, 35,000-mile tour around the world.
shoe
With songs like
Store," he Was toon earning more than £15,000 a year. Most Profitable
CENSING his instinct as *
these days
INVENTOR'S DREAMS COME TRUE
showman, he produced Athe
the efforts of
a Joke to the opened the year
the
n
N electro-encephalograph, over Europe, It demonstrated craft, They included new type elaborate version of a penny. machine-is used' called "Crazy Quit" the "mechanical doctor" clearly how our one-time "in- circular acate all pressure in in-the-slot
trade" - hns, dicators: platinum musical
which diagnoses brain - strument-making
resistance at Harwell to check the hands, and toured with it throughout
of workers. and clothing nesses nutomatically; a laundry under the impetus of selenuine bulbs for the measurement of feet the country behind one of the
which measures advances and the emergence of temperatures from 250 to plus who have been in contact with: He intends to share the fruits noisiest publicity campaigns photometer, of this global experience with the West had ever experienced, the cleanliness of clothes; an electronics, expanded into a 500 degrees Centigrade; sen- radio-active materials to as-
electronic "nose", which great British industry.
ritive altimeters with a range up certain that all harmful con- But his most original and "smells" smoke and rings a fre
been removed the readers of his column. He
"Wartime schlevements to 70,000 feet; a simply-operated lamination has will tell then how in Rio de profitable idea was the Aqua
alarm; "atroboscopic light
consolidatexi.” re- Pi
periceople sextant designed es- before they leave the establish-- Janeiro Evita Peron, the wife cade, which he brought to the device" by which a deaf-mute have been
pecially to meet the require- ment Professor G. Ingle Pan of the Argentine President, New York World Fair in 1939. could tune a piano; electronic nared
ments of pressurised aircraft; and Eleanor discussed women's Through
200 watch-timing equipment, which French, the Society's President, ments
Naval scientists showed the a new visual navigational ald styles instead
clock within of world bathing girls swiraming rhythests a
few and many new advances have for use with Rebecca Mark IV latest in cubmarine rescue ap- millimetre wave been made. There remains politics; how it felt to be the mically to a 60-piece orchestra seconds; Ruest of General MacArthur in he cleared a
net profit of lengths; new alloys; an electron hardly a single field in which equipment; and a new aircraft paratus a small shoulder lamp. This is a beam in a watertight fiting which is landing aid.
the back of
the. Tokyo; how in Paris he dis- £500,000 in two stusons,
Epproach indicator with crossed fixed on to his the New Look
nightclub, Since cussed
BY PETER LOVEGROVE. with
pointers, one of which is operu escape suit and to Et automa- Christian Dior; and how in Diamond Horseshoe, which ha
ted from
the action of sen. the localiser signal tically by Rome he told
before, was
n.icroscope, which magnifles British firms cannot compete and the other by the glide-path water. It will burn continuous. Pope. "When he laughed at my also grossing about £300,000 a 100,000 times and is used to on equal terms with those of algal. It has been fully tested ly for thirty hours. story I got the feeling nobody year, Rose found that at the
countries, and many of and approved by the Ministry
with The operational advantage ok! had told the Pope a joke for a age of 40 the motive force of examine minute organisms, the other
was no longer driving grain of five powders and the the instruments exhibited were of Civil Aviation for us
the best of their kind, long me," said Dilly Rose money
the Instrument landing system using beam techniques in radar- him anywhere. He bought him-shape of smoke particles; and a
balance which will rogister
Interference became obvious during the war for civil aircraft.
to self a country house and stuff-weight of one-hundredth of n
electro-encephalograph,
great impetus by equipment and buildings and gave on are some of the which can also be employed as adjacent to the airport in mini-. Work
centimetro Wave- ed It with antique furniture milligramme.
collection of
developments paintings scientiñe
and alle-detector, is able to locate, mised, and it also incorporates lengths. During TN appearance there is nothing which
Rizat includes Rembrandt.trange now ideas seen in Lon- in few minutes, brain dis warning Indicators which show techniques were evolved which to distinguish Billy Rose
El do for the first time last cases which might take medical very clearly when the landing employed, wavelengths as short. from any other
Matiase, Renoir and Httle man
men hours to diagnose. From signals are not being receivda. as 1.25 centimetrey Lo you might meet behind a Greco.
fcelera nitached to tho
employed. Since, th
then, the Tele- haberdashery counter or inani
were on view at the 14 They
the
communications Research E- licad, Physical Society's 33rd annual patient's
machine pulating a trombone in a night
In addition to the commer- tablishment has been attemp club. His Bit, 3in. pre conser
user- THEN, one day in 1845, he be-exhibition, held at the Imperial rends every electric oscillation
research BCC- ting to due to the, nervous activity af cial firms, the
to produce and Uso power South gun writing a series of ads. College of Science in vatively covered in neat, well-
of Government Depart on xtul shorter wavéléngus.. fitting clothes, while his face for the Diamond Horseshoe,
one of the biggest the brain, analyses the symp- tions Kensington.
the exhibition down ments showed examples of the Its display at has the puffy, tired look of n which
writes them ho describes
of the year. toms and "ascientific events, 15
fixed Dens. It forty urms willy weary, olive. He has a pleasant, cabaret featuring the usual 80 One hundred and
costs physical research they are pur- cluded the design of an oscilla-
sulag and tho apparatus re- for which covered A rango baritone volco
which periodi- girls in 49 costumes." So read-and research establishments £2,000.
between The Atomic wavelengths
seven. the strument cently produced. his tales cully emits sparkling gems of able
which participated, and only appara-
Rencorch Establish- and 12 millimetres, and other blended 0. tynical wit.
Henry,
invented Damon tus
or improved developments on view are go- Energy Born on a kitchen table in Runyon and the raucous bark during the preceding year could ing to be of the greatest benefit ment, for instance, displayed o components for an instrument: en the range of eight: especially jet- 'variety of radiation monitors. ing aviation, an East Side Blum in New of the carnival that scores of be included. Attracting selen- to York, KORU Jins scratched. papers were soon clamouring late and businessmen from all propelled and high-altitude air- one of which-looking like a to nine millimetres.
me.
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