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1930.

G.B.S. GEMS FOR

GETTING THE FAMILY UP -

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

SALE.

VIEWS ON " * JESUS THE CHRIST."

MY CINEMA RIGHTS-MILLION

DOLLARS!

The most remarkable series of letters, written by Mr. George Ber- nard Shaw, that has even appear- ed in the saleroom was" offered for sale last month.

The series was divided into three groups:

One, letters written to his early disciple and friend, Frederick El. Evans.

Another to the gentle musician and maker of musical instru ients, Arnold Dolmetsch; and

The think to his old chief on "the Saturday Review and fellow artist in letters. Frank Harris, Owned by a private collector, the first two groups were acquired direct from the recipients, while the third was acquired from the New York Bookseller to whom they were sold by Mr. Harris

A Typical "No."

Twelve months ago the writer had the Harris series of letters in his possession with a view to publishing extended extracts from some of the most remarkable, but on seeking Mr. Shaw's permission received a most emphatic and typically Sha- vian refusal.

It is now possible, however, from the copious excerpts given in the catalogue, to indicate the intimate character of these letters, more es- pecially those addressed to Frank Harris.

"Four Biographies."

One of the most remarkable decuments is an eight-page letter to Frank Harris, obviously written on the type-writer by Shaw himself. and headed, Bernard Shaw and Jesus the Christ" :--

"Your review of my Androcles preface." he writes, is very interesting reading

but

Gr. the subject of the mildness of Jesus, you must fight it out, not with me, but with St. Matthew. The Sermon on the Mount, even" if we could accept it as a genuine cpen-air speech "and not a very obvious collection of sayings, would not afford the slightest pre- sumption that Jesus was himself the sort of person he exhorted his hearers to ba,

"Have you ever

F,

known a

WAKES UP

SOUNDS THE BETTING-UP SIGNAL

GOOD! IT WORKED. HEARS MOTHER AND DAD MURMUR- ING IN NEXT ROOM

WHAT'S THIS? SILENCE! THEY'RE WAITING TO SEE IF HE WONT DROP OFF AGAIN

AHA! THEY'RE EACH OFFER-.. ING TO GET UP AND GET BA- BY'S BOTTLE, AND STALLING HOPING THE OTHER WILL GET

UP FIRST

WELL HE CAN'T LET THEM PUT ANYTHING LIKE THAT

OVER ON HIM

THAT'S BETTER. HEARS THEM SIGHING, BUT NO FOOTSTEPS VET

OF COURSE HE DOESN'T WANT TO COMPLAIN, BUT SHOULD PAR ENTS MAKE A BABY WORK QUOTE SO HARD GETTING THEM UP

4-10

AT LAST! SOUNDS AS IF DADDY HAD LOST OUT THIS MORNING, THE WAY THAT WINDOW WAS SHUT (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Artist: "My terms for B trait are fifty guiness.'

por-

Mr. Nouveia Riche: "An' 'oo provides the paint "

"I can't remember the name of the car I want-I think it starts with T.

"Madam, all our cars start with petrol."

Spivvens was attending his first opera and was puzzled.

"Is she singing in English" he whispered to his neighbour.

"How do you expect me to tell?" replied the old-timer. She's a so- prano."

The speaker was getting tired of sportsman to. be ferocious Have being interrupted." you ever known a humanitarian who are not ferocious?.. I go to the Bible and I find there four biographics of Jesus.. Out of all these. I have picked some scraps of doctrine common to the four."

We seem to have à great many simpletons here tonight," he said. Wouldn't it be advisable to hear one at a time "".

America's Outlook.

In another letter, extending to eight pages, probably the most direct and revealing ever written by Shaw, he writes about himself a that if it could be printed in full it would be superfluous for any one else to write about his inner life. It is, perhaps, the only letter of Shaw which does not attempt the top note.

His opinion of America is con- tained in another letter, in which he says: "America has the morals and the outlook of an XVIII. 'century village."

We also learn from several of

Yes," said a voice." "Get on with your speech."

on

"There's La Rossi, the Miggsi famous tightrope walker."

Jiggs: Yes, they say he started

a shoestring. 17

Freddy: What is an iceberg, Dad- dy”.

***

Daddy: "Why, it's a kind of per- manent wave, son."

"You don't need an alarm clock to awaken you in the morning "

"No, I can always bear my wife scraping the toast."

Maiden Aunt: "What brought you to town."

Heary: "Well, I just came to see the sights, and I thought that I'd call on you first."

Guest: "Well, I must be going now."

Friend of Hostess (aside): "He said that once before.”

THE DEITY ON THE STAGE.

SENSATIONAL PLAY IN NEW YORK.

NEGRO PARSON.

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There is nothing irreverent in my play, nor does it touch upon. apy controversial religious topic. It is an attempt to present in living terras the religion "of thousands negroes in the Southern States."

So Marc Connelly, the author of Green Pastures," the play now running in New York, in which the Lord appears in the form of a coloured preacher.

It has proved the most Senaa- tional play of the year, and recently the ticket agencies-equivalent to the libraries in London-bought up

Hostess (also aside): "Yes, he always says it twice when he's goBeats to the value of £114,000. ing. He's an auctioneer."

Golfer, finding his game a bit off for the first time in years, balts Customer: "A Swiss cheese sand- and surveys the English Channel,wich on rye bread, please.""" near by, in weary disgust. Then he exclaims:

"I say, how do you expect me to play a decent game with all those annoying chips sailing up and down"t

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Indian): Tourist to little "Hello, Hiawatha. Where's your wigwamn?"

Little Indian: "My name's not Hiawatha, sir!"

Tourist "Pardon me, I didn't mean to offend you."

hontas"

Counter Man (repeating order): Customer: I beg your pardon, I wonder if I could change my order to American cheese

"Counter Man: "Naturalize that Swiss!"

Mrs. Newlywed: "Oh, I wish these recipes would be more de

finite."

Mr. Newlywed: "What's the diff culty, my dear 1"

Mrs. Newlywed: "Well, this one tells how to use up old potatoes,

potatoes must be."

these letters Mr. Shaw's opinion of Little Indian: "My name's Poca but does not say how old the

the cinema.

Mrs. Harris, in 1921, had gone to Londen to get Shaw's consent to the use of his name for a film of the life of Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde Film.

"I write," says Shaw, "in the middle of this mess about Mrs. Harrise mission.

I can by lifting my finger get 50,000 dola. for with an Oscar Wilde fim the name of Bernard. Shaw in the advertisement of it.

I am a married man; and my wife is a member of the firm. The 50,000 dols that my name is worth on a film is an asset of the firm; and I am not free to give it away with a Cyranesque gesture even if I could afford it..

The same subject is. discussed in a brief but pregnant letter written- to F. H. Evans in 1919.

is

Incurable Shopper: "How much

Ticket Seller: "Two seventy, ma a ticket to Goopsville ?"

dam."

I. S. (to companion): "Well, Maune, I guess we might as well buy 'em here. I've priced 'em at all the windows, now, and there's no difference."

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"I can't imagine why old Smith should be so angry with his son. The boy just acted on instruc- tions."

"In what way?"

"His father advised him to go out and find an opening, and the next thing the youngster did was to write and tell his old man he. was in a hole."

Billy was cleaning Father's boote and was taking a long time to do

you finished those Soate yet Father called to him.

He writes: "I was offered ai

"Haven't my cinema million dollars for rights the other day. My American lawyer figured it out thus Income 1,000,000 dola. Laxes thereon in England, the United States and the States of New York 1,017,000 dols."

"Almost; I am doing these cord," said Billy

"Well, where is the first?" ask- ed. Father.

Oh," replied Billy, Ill do that when I've finished the second."

"Hello! Where have you been ""

God and Noah,

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One incident in the play, pictures a meeting between the Lord, and Noah.

The stage directions go on:-

God rises slowly, and as he reaches his full height there is crash of lightning, a moment's darkness, and a roll of thunder. It grows light again. Noah is on his knees in front of God.

Mare Connelly has arrived in London, not to push Green Pas- tures with a view to securing its production in London," but to pro- duce a yet unnamed play by an English author, William Bolitho, which deals with Germany after the

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At the end of a dinner. which "Naturally, as an author, I would It is not generally known that recently was organized by the Briliku to see my play produced over! tish Legion in London of those de- here, but I am not out to push it during recent months apparatus has corated with the Victoria Cross a in any way," Connelly told a re-been installed in several of the lady asked one of the heroes: porter.

Central London cinema. theatres by

"How did you win your Cross " In this play I have tried to which deaf people can hear the "I saved the life of all the mem-present a picture of a child's idea words and synchronized sounds and" bers of my company, ma'am."

of God, for these Southern negroes music of the "talkies." Thousands have still the outlook of children.

"Oh! How did you do that?" "I imprisoned the cook, ma'am."

"

Tourist: "Beg pardon, could you give me a little information ?""

Farmer: "Bure! Where you goin' "''

"Before I wrote the play I spent of the deaf who found in the silent months of investigation in the film their only form of public enter- Southern States, visiting chapels,tainment were troubled by the dif and studying the religious outlook ficulty of following a screen play of the coloured people.

"Preachers' Approval.. "Substantially God is not intend-

Tourist: "To St. Louis.".. Farmer: "How far you come " Tourist: "From Utien." Farmer: "Have any tire trouble"ed to be represented on the stage in person. The preacher, a gentle, Tourist: Very little."

bewildered, kindly, and tolerant Farmer: Well, gid ap! Got to man, is the negroes's idea of what be movin'; always glad to help God is like, because they must tran strangers"

Blato their religion in terms of the immediate ...

Husband (to friend): wsat you to help me. I promised to meet eny wife at 1 o'clock for luncheon, and I can't remember, where. Would you mind ringing her up at our house and asking her where I am likely to be about that time "

The Test matches against Austra lia are to be broadenst, but the plan asked Brown. He was going home Klumacigh obtained a job as adopted will be different compared with that of previous cricket broad late from office and had overtaken packer in a china warehouse. On casts. It has been found that the Jones, who looked wet and muddy the third day he smashed a big On pay day he was called was burdened with fishing vase. and running commentary is not prae-

into the manager's office and, was ticable, and also, that it is not tackle.

"Been fishing said Jones de- told that half his wages would-he with decrip-

Reek until the vase "Catch much "

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as it is impossible to decide before- hand which will be the exciting mo ments of play. At the forthcoming Tests an expert will witness the matches, and at 6.30 each day will go to a microphone to be fixed up near the ground and occupy ten minutes in talking about the day's play.

"What did you catch enquired Brown eagerly.

"First train there, first train back, caught in a shower, caught a cold, and expect I shall catch it when I get-home-

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when the theatres were wired for "talkies," and spoken dialogue took the place of printed ceased altogether to attend the cinemas, while others have had to bo satisfied with a partial enjoyment of mixed proprammes where there. have been available.

A microphone is placed slightly in advance of, and immediately below, one of the loud-speakers. There is "When the play was first pro- cable lead at the back of the duced it was thought that objection screen which is taken from the would be raised by religious bodies. microphone to a plug point in the To our surprise, however, we stage, and a further telephone table found that preachers of all de- is then connected with a special nominations, far from objecting to three-valve amplifier. A second the play, were urging their con theatre line runs from the amplifier gregations to visit the theatre to see

to a block of seats in the balcony of the auditorium This block is. wired up with armoured cable and "It has now become something each seat is equipped with a tele- phone jack under the arm-rest. The. more than a play it has become a listening keta consist of a single form of consolidation for all earphone on a handle with a local ligious movements."

volume control. The flexible cord telephone plug, which fits into the jack attached to the seat. As a re- sült of the means employed each hearer can control the volume of Municipalities and chambers of sound to suit his own needs, and commerce have been offered to sub- the listening apparatus does not ob sidise companies if we will send struct the passage, to adjoining them to their towns."

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