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1938.

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Chapter Ono

The Pookah was as handsome a stallion as one could hope to soo. A long, finely formed head,, high, eroot ears, trim, streamlined, tega and a osat of the deepest russet brown were his outstanding phy sical qualifications. But perhap his most important annota

were those of temperament. Ho loved to 'race; and hë nover gave up.

it ought to worry me. And it does. And If you're thinking of not tak- ing The Pookah -- but you can't DELH

forceful of all answers.

Bir Peter's silence was the most

Americal" aried Roger, "Grand- "Oh, but you must take ħilm to father, listen: I shall have some money, ha'n't I, when I come of ager

"Yes, you will have," angwered Sir Peter,

Then fet me take some of that, now, and use it for the trip," pur- sued Roger exeltedly.

you calt

Biz absorbed and admiring eyes were fastened on the borse non ho

"Hometime, later on, cantored anally around the track. carry our colors to Amorien," re Two of them belonged to Bir Poterled Elr Peter, shaking his head. Calvertom stalwari, grey-haired "Perlupa.. when the time comes, British sportsman. Another pair you can succeed where I failed." came from a point two feet lower to the right, where Bir Poter's grandson toger was clutching the wooden rail. Two other eyes were pearing from beneath the furrowed brown of Wilkins, who had traine The Pookah from the time he was an awkward colt.

"Joey" beckoned WIkina, motioning to the stable boy who was giving The Pookah fits work- out. "Como 'era a minute."

The boy compiled.

"Take in the other way "round the course," ordered Willas. "We"-

"But I wouldn't be any fun, go- ing to America alone," cried Roger. "And the poor aid Pookah's racing daya would be over then. Just lot no borrow some of the money

afrald not, my boy," sald Sir Peter. "It was a splendid and generous Idea, Roper, but there are two things you must Isarn."

He put his hands affectionataly Pon the boy's shoulder.

"Yes, ali 20

"One is that gentlemen accept their lol gracefully. The other thing

G.B.S.-Playboy and Superman

TUIE star under which Mr. George

with

By "AN OLD STAGER"

was

Am

could not be lured to his feet. At length after a special appeal from comet, and it danced an Irish jig.

the chair, he rose up and addressed This did not in the least deler

the assembly. "I have listened with G. B. S. from hitching his literary

peculiar interest to the vice-preal»' Jaunting car to its refulgent tall,

dent's address on The Religion ot the romantic result that

after derisive and sympathetic. His kind Shelley," said G. B. S. "because ness is infinite and his generosity Shelley and I have much in common, a grim, uphill struggle for

fame and fortune e in his younger days,

lays, Mr. Quixotic.

Shelley

a poet. So Behind even his most astounding Shelley was a dramatist. So am I. Shaw in the

eighties is Parnassian probably the richest vegetarian in anties lurks ever a whimsical bene- Shelloy was a Socialist. So am

er he not

volence. Witness the world, and could, were

hla behaviour Shelley was a vegetarian. So am I. in reality a modest fellow, boast that when a High School mistress coaxed And finally, Mr. Chairman, Shelley him into distributing the prizes to | Christendom, besides having a con- to make them a speech, Mr. Shawn up the Society.

his initials are the best known in her girls. ""But surely you're going was an atheist. So am 1" It brake siderable celebrity even among the "My dear lady, I wouldn't dream of On his seventieth birthday G. D. 9. heathen.

such seuten.

A thing

But I will give them was entertained by some of his old It was in dear, dirty Dublin on an exhibition of life-saving in the Fabian admirers and comrades, Phil July 26, 1850, that G. D. S. was born. swimming pool."

And,

over Snowden and Ramsay MacDonald among them, at a luncheon in the light of subsequent knowledge, it is Many years ago G, ostonishing there were earth ed president of a Shelley society in made him on that occasion is trea- quakes or other portents. He was London. No, anneals could provali sured in the Shaw menage, though the only son of an ex-law court's on the president to attend its meet banished by Mrs. Shaw to an incon official turned corn merchant. He ings. At length the honorary secre- spicuous attic. It consisted of a has been characteristically frank tory wrote that the distinguished handsome silver inkstand with the about that parent, who came of an- vice-president was lecturing on "The inscription: "Will Shaw ever die- elent linenge with noble connections. Religion of Shelley," and imploring

not bloody likely!" but cultivated a

The weakness which G. B. S. to come.

conspicuous barred the family from its legitimate figure of the Superman duly appear- socini heritage.

ed, but, refusing all Invitations to a you asked him to a dinner or sent on the dais, curled up on a back

G. B. S. has confided, "he row. party," was not always sober when

he "so am " arrived, and was invariably scan- dalously drunk when he left." All the Superman's hero-worship

went

ot

Looking back on that event in the seventy, G. B. s. dia. was elect- House of Commons. The gift they

no

Would that the nudacious jest were true. The world can ill afford in these unbalanced reactionary days to lose its one and only G. B. 5-the Irish Nestor with the trenchant but benevolent shillelagh the Discussion followed the vice-pre- authentic Peter Pan of the Western

to his mother, who migrated with ident's crudite paper, but G. B S. Hemisphere. Roger aquared his shoulders. flo

ve got to teach Im the Americanle that thoroughbreds don't cry." WAY.

Joey starod in consternation. looked up at his grandfather with "Go on, go on," added the train-an expreostan of determination.

er. "You and I know It's wrong. "I think I understand, air,” be but since America's the place ́es ankit, starting away. goin' to run in, that's the way 'e'll have to learn."

Off went The Pookah, this time in what was from the standpoint or English racing tradition-a back wards direction. Roger climbed up on the rail gleefully.

"The Pookah doesn't Ab 12 mind which way he runs." 10 ex claimed. "Dorahe, grandfather"

Sir Peter mada no reply.

"I could teach that 'orno to run backwards on two legs, cut in

illai

Bir Peter's eyes filled with mist on he followed tho small reirenting figure. But his mind was already busy with the nucleus of a half- formulated plan. In a moment he stepped to the telephone and called the number of lus barrister,

One oraing shortly afterwards, with Roger en busy with his lesson", a toll lean individual who ben Bin ringularly appropriato arine of Thrandneedle WAI naunged at Calverton Hall. “Well?" asid 'Bir Poler,

"The master's just decided to go to America,"

An-

when

and

to London, her son and daughter to supported the little family by becom ing a music mistress. Until the age of fourteen G. B. S. attended a Wesleyan school in Dublin. He then office, went into an estate agent's but on coming to London gave up a business career in high disgust, and started to read the toilsome paths, of literary aspiration.

£6 in Nine Years

WAS NORMA

one

Shearer RigHT? SHEARER

TORMA

His first five novels, of which only two, "Cashel Byron" and "The Irra- tional Knot," have ever

seen the light outside obscure Socialist pages, were rejected by various myopic publishers. "I did not throw myself into the struggle of life," Mr. Shaw less Sylvia Scarlett in the film tells LES, "I threw my mother into version of "Gone

Nnot playing the reck-

SHEARER is +++|=|=|=|=|=|=|a

terary his first nine years of Wind."

with

She has given up a part

the

because the fans don't like it.

In answer to thou-

endeavour G. B. S. has stated sands of protesta from her fans

These filmgoers are making

that he camed exactly £0. Some- who declare she should. not † puppets of the stars, declares

how one cannot-help-regarding that

as a Shavianism.

play the part she withdrew

A lecture by Henry George in 1882 from the cast, for she says she converted G. B. S. to Socialism. He thinks the fans are right. became stalwart of the Fobion

nge, 10

success.

two

SETON MARGRAVE

.certain

Society, and soon numbered among I wonder. Seven years ago, when ** his friends the Webbs, William the late Irving Thalberg came to

of D Endless repetitions Morris, Annie Besant, and last, but London, he and I had a war over ones who have not been tled down to not least, that splendid patrician- Norma Shearer. He was her pro- firebrand. Cunninghame

Graham ducer and her husband, and he was character because that character was It is amusing now to recall that guiding her career most brilliantly once successful.

These stars began by being ver- G. B. 5. owed his journalistic patron from the point of view of box-office satile. Luise Rainer, after playing

to William Archer.

AS the He

such opposite parts He graduated brilliantly as music was staggered when I told him critic to the London Star, and later that if I had read the minds of film- glamorous creature of "The Great

all wrong. I

Ziegfeld" and the tragle heroine of burgeoned forth as dramatic critic goers aright he was

"The Good Earth, will be accepted to the Saturday Review. As the said to him:

in almost any part she chooses. Star's music man his nom de plung "Normn Shearer, in the minds of

Others are not so fortunate. Mar represents the perfection her in films like 'Let Us Be statue almost as tightly as Warner G. B. S. attended n prize distribu- Gay, A Free Soul, and 'Strangers land to being Charlie Chan and

Fred Astaire to dancing. tion,

and mentioned that the chair May Kiss.

A star who wishes be versatile "In all of these she has had to play "was taken by a deplorable M.P."!

thean

success in one Immoral character. Therefore can be too great a su His incomparable articles for

with impish you are destroying the Ideal which part. I doubt whether Gary Cooper Saturday, coruscating wit and shrewd humour, first made has made Almgoers wish to see her in ever escape from "Mr. Deeds," or

It was in Alms." famous the initials G. B. S.

Was Corno di Bassetto. There is onl{fimgflood. You have been pre- lene Dietrich is tied down to being a

imperishable fragment of his 'very of early Fleet Street days.

senting

הוא

Robert Montgomery from being a playboy, in spite of his excursion into a journalistle tour de force: Thou- Her Best Film

"Night Must Fall," or Joan Crawford sands read the Saturday solely for

AFTER we had argued for 48 from "Our Dancing Daughters, or Shaw. But G. B. S. was at heart a

A hours ho cut right back at Robert Taylor from his dress suit, propaganda fanatic. molley purely in order to attract at-me and asked, "Supposing you are which he detests. tention--much as a Hyde Park orator right, what film would you make Comedians' Dilemma might stand on his head to draw the next with Norma Shearer?"

crowd.

Creating his Public

wore the

answered: "I would get right back to Hollywood and make 'Smilin' Through. "

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ACROSS 1 The foolish fellow was always

feeding declare (10).

Wilkins. "And 'o'd still be out in the new arrival had been ensconced froat. Drawin' a load of "ay, too." In a chair, and the ritual of order- Roger Jumped down and ran ing geotehos-and-godaa had been off to follow the progress of the enmpleted. horsa around the

track.

"I was able to arrange a town,” thoughts were all on the challenge, sald Threadneedle slowly.

"Splendid." which Bir Peter had necepted to send another highly fancicil racer "You'd better walt until you nerous the Athaile and try for the hear the rest. The only way I could American cu Consistently darnlag the money was through a feated in proviota attempts to mortgage on the houan und bring back Tila coveted trophy grounde.“ Again he hesitated. "And to Britun, Sir Peter had felt thất |the bout I could get-was one thous he must make at least one more sand pounds.” attempt. The Pookah was hin fay- "Ono thousand!" Sir Peter's face arite racer, out of a quarter of a flushed. "A thousand on the Halil century of blue ribbon competition. Why, five thousand would be little Somehow, Hogger felt. the horse enough. It's propostorous." zented this triat bnpused on him, "I know," onld Threadneedle sad-

6 A vessel almost closed (4). anil wou'dn't let the family down, ly. "My advice la to refuse the of-

9 A butterly that might interfere Willdnr, who had been studying fer and give up the idea of tho

He found his true literary metier;

with Franco's fleet movements He did, and "Smilin' Through" has ful of the comedians from our British the tachura Bir Petor between trip to America."

"A place of this size," fumed Sir closely knit brows, moved closer.

(two words-3; 7). and his congenial propaganda pitch been the most successful film in music-halls when they have ventur-

Alms. ed into "you'll excuse me, olt,' ba Paler. "One of the biggest estates

as a dramatist. His first play was which she lins ever appeared. "you don't seem none too in England, Nons lias a better hie- nalil,

Players like Will lay and George 10 Dird (4). With

"Smilin' Through" Norma Anished in 1892. But though "Arms:

found in Formby have a tremendous problem 12 Girl fou Thern'a torv appy about the horas.

run in Shearer returned to romance, and nothing the matter, to there, air?"

and the Man" had, a fair "I thought you wouldn't consider

in deciding whether to do something

perhaps (6). "Nothing flist anyone can blame the offer," nald the other,

America, neither it nor other early proceeded in this key in ascending old, of which the public may be 14 The name of this curly motorist you for, Wilkins," answered la "Threadneedle," cried Sir Peter,

successes in seale to star in "The Barrells of plays were box-office

tired,

is still respected (5). or something new, which the inter soberly.

nuddenly rising "have you the pa

London. There was no Shaw thea-Wimpole Street" and the exquisitely nublic may not like

17 Part of whole race or of an in

country. this

So beautiful "Romeo and Jullet," which tre public

individual (3)- Among British actresses the great- G. B. S. set out to make one.

marks the peak of her enreer in ur-

cat success has been achleved by 18 This doesn't mean nelghing He published his plays in book-

achievement. tistic

but is ambiguous (0). form, with Inimitable and

The problem of choosing stories for Anna Neagle in her transformatan lengthy prefaces, but so lucidly com- stars is one of the chief headaches of from a musical comedy star to play-21 This exists for the sake of 5

down (5). ing Queen Victoria, but then she has reader, average nder, the flm world. mentated that the with no technique of the theatre, could

"Why, yes," said the other, start- fed, "but surely you're not-"

n niwaya dona the beat 1pers with you?" could," replied Wilkins. “I wouldn't Bike to feel I was—well, a failure." "However hard he trien, a zaan can fall," bald Peter, eyes averted.

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"I shall sign them and post them to you tonight," said Bir Pater. "I'm going to Amerlen."

"I know what you're thinking of, Pollock, the butler, took almost

Those as much pride in the accomplish nir responded Wilkins. ather horses we took to America, ments of a Calverton racing entry Well, we 'ave failed before, I grant as Bir Peter himself. He was one you, but we won't this time. Not gaged in pouring out some noda with The Pookah! We'll show those when Str Poter mado his declara-, Yankees this time.”

ton, and he almost dropped tho

Sir Peter hesitated a moment be-jalphon bottle. It was not quite Ume fore replying, then kurned and for Master Roger to recalvo lila lonked awkwardly at his devoted mid-morning glass of milk, but for retninor.

once Pollock was going to mako an exception to his rigidly followed achedule.

"We're not going to America this year," he said slowly.

Not going, sir?" hammered WH-

"No," said Air Poter. "I'm afraid that decision's Anal,”

Wilkins understood how to con- "You're early, Pollock," trol his emotions. Ho, was an ex-Roger, while the instructor tapped pert at self-restraint. As he moved on his desk Impatiently. away, however, Rogor ran up.

the

"Beg your pardon," answered the The boy know Immediately from butler, "but I thought you'd files expressions of the two men to hear the news. The mastor's that something was Amit.

It just decided to go to America."

Roger stared, at first Incredu

made a shrewd guess and—an it

happened-an accurate one at the lously, then in wild fublation. caura of the disturbance.

"Grandfather,” ha raid, taking "Whoopee!" he cried. leaping up. Sir Peter's arm. "it's money you're and Binging a whole aheat of lee- worried about, isn't it?"

don papers over, his head. "I must

"Whatever it is, there's nothing toil Wilkins. Whoopas!”

to bother you,” said Sir Polor.

“Yon, Uiero la. If it worries you, i

(To be continued)

that

ry.

often

after

We

stars should always be the Hollywojection.

the shrubbery

25 Slie is the main part of on

(3)

traders (10):

DOWN

1 "Bring with thee-from heaven or blasts from hell" ("ilam- let") (4).

2 This often impedes navigation

on the Nile (4).

3 Spirit that might please another

9 across perhaps (5).

4 A continental government (5), 5 "The undiscovered country from whose bourne no—-re-

("Hamlet") (9). turna"

It is twice aggravated. In the first the wise guidance of Herbert Wilcox, 22 Town of Italy (5). fallow them caslly. From place because producers

choose who is one of the shrewdest show-23 Mistaken (9), G. B. S.'s apotheosiy moment

But Herbert Wilcox is only one

opera was assured. His plays proved best-alories by obstinacy instead of Intel, men in the film world.

ligence, and the second place be among many producers, and there 26 A broken truce (3). play- sellers as books, and soon a going public arose that demanded cause stars often seek to escape from are very few players who can take 27 A player disguised as a Cos-

the sort of part which has made on any sort of part.

ter? (8). author them popular. as dramo. Even Shavior G. B. S. was entirely original on the

They call Spencer Tracy-I had to 32 Fish (4). business side. His publishers did Both Wrong

get his name in, since I am his most 33 Convicts may not possess this but may take exercise in It not pay him royalties. He let them

PRODUCERS generally think devoted fan-the greatest actor in Controlling his excitement, ha

the took

(two words-0, 4). because he can play any draw the royalties, and hurried with the refreshment tray

risks and the big profits himself same. Stars think they should al- part to

34 This is essential to rhythm (4). to the room where the boy's tutor

It is not a tribute to our insular ways be different. Both are wrong.

35 Little colony But there is only one Spencer,

popular with | was discussing algebraic roots,

The choice of stories for intellectuality that G. B. S.'s plays, said

stars So 1

to wondering I come back considerable though their later suce should be the easiest thing in film- whether the fans were right in for- cess has been, were never the pop-making. All you have to do is select bidding Norma Shearer to play

might lar triumphs here that they are in a story which will enhance the per- Sylvia Scarlett. She

kave almost every country in Europe as sonally ulready approved by the given a great performance. On the well as in America. To some ex-

public.

other hand, her representation of you must enhance the Sylvia might tent the Irish prophet is still with- out due honour in his adopted coun-sonally, not change it or cramp it, milition of have been clouded to

vious pictures. is approved. it tion, but G, B. S. out-Ibsened bis

It is all very diMcult, but I hope have had many cases of stars master. The sparkle of his dialogue rebelling against characters in which you see what you have done. often supports what would otherwise

they were not approved.

By your power at the box-office be intolerable stage perorations em-

terrilled the stors and Myrna Loy, rebelled against being you have of gospel bodying the Shavian rational idealism. It is quite impos-cast as n siren, and la how the ideal their producers into considering what sible to estimate the effect Shavian-wite of nims. William Powell kick-you will like rather than what they ism had on the youthful mind of the cd against being cast as a villain, and think is right.

Certainly you pay for your en- carly twentieth-century generation. is now the hopplest of alm. husbands.

James Cagney and George Raft are tertainment most handsomely, and G. B. S. sowed the dragon's teeth-

others who have rebelled against you are entitled to get what you pay and then derided the earthquake!

being eternally in the wrong parts in for; but are you quite sure that you Man's Destiny

Alme

are not making puppets of film stars? Crosby discovered Dafied the Public I think Bing Crosby. Only obtuse mentally could rate G. B. S. as the brilliant clown. He himself when he insisted on charac- towers among the outstanding intellifera having a sense of humour, and gences of his epoch. A genius gifted that Frank Cepra-discovered Clark with a rare facility of seeing conven- Gable when he made him the happy Are you not the first cause of what

they call the machine-made film? tional things through unconventional hero of "It Happened One Night.",

Or is that the way you like it? perspective.

mesange is that Tied to their Parts

A very great producer, whose co-operate loyally humanity must.

THE rool of the trouble in name wild elephants would not drag THE and intelligently with the Life Force

Hollywood regarding the from me, once said to me, "I do not be discarded on the scrap casting of stars is the apparent In- give a hoot for the public. 1. make heap of elernity like the prehistoric ability of producers to seo the differ- pletures to plenae myself."

ence between stare being cast ac- He was and is an enormous sue- monsters.

personalities and ceas. So, are you right, all the time? The Shavian physique reflerts per cording to their

I put it to you, o

and I leave it with fectly the Shavian intellect, G. B, S. being woodenly stereotyped.

Some few have escaped being you. In the eigilies is a tall, thin, corTI –

Bette Davis, Luize Perhaps Norma Shohrer should manding gure, bearded, and san-stereotyped. dalled like the Prophet, erect and Rainer, Margaret Sullavan, Barbara have played Scarlett and defied the alert, challenging and humorous, Stanwyck are among the fortunate lot of you,

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