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BUTCHER BUT

"Nearest "we got to a "moát tátiön this wook "was bulls" dyos.

The Astonishing Billy Rose

London Express Service

BILLY ROSE. MRS. ROSE

When Shaw Met Shakespeare

GEORGE Bernard She's the two men, with dielogue in

krentent living

Britain's literary

blank veras.

figures, seems set to make A third postwar play, Far Fetched Fables”, in believed to hia 03rd year one of the deal with the state of the world mont lively in his carcer. after atomic warfare. Nothing is Though the tall, lean, white known about its future produc- bearded Agure LE bent and tion."

the years have taken their toll

of his physical resources, bla Mr. Shaw Bill does kid literary nimble genius remains lezenly work, as he always has done. provocative of discussion and between the hours of 10 a.m. and debate among British thikers. 1 p.m. in a small summerhouse But tho advance of modern in the garden of his lovely Heri- society bus deprived him. of fordshire home at Ayot St. Law- many of the objects of his ronce.

youthful irony.

When Mr Shaw chooses to Thousands of pilgrims visit the start a controversy today, ho village every year. For a long usually attacks what he regards is they found it impossible to as the injustice to authors ke catch even a glimpse of the himself of Britain's income tax house in which Mr Shaw' lives lawa, or the illogical peculiarities and which he has bequeathed, fo

the nation when by of English spelling.

The recent

dibite in the

British Houso

ot

Commons

for

on spelling re- form. example,

Tea:

Mr. Show to explain

to the

readers of the

London

"Times" How

By

ROBERT

BROWN

however,

r

Shaw himself arranged, for a largo wrought- iron gate to be put up. Through

this.laltors

chn

now, Bee the house.

Ovor, the

gate, is the In-

wasteful in time, energy and seription "Shaw's Comer."* materials was the spelling of After spending the morning many English words.

writing, Mr Shaw Juhches at one o'clock-on the vegetarian Even his Interest' in this sub- fare which has provided him in fect did not cause 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 gue-

cessful writers whose earnings

Then

make them liable to pay 19s. Od. TF the weather is suitable, he in the £1 sterling super tax,

may, then take a stick and walk down the lane to the

Recently, Mr Show published village, and perhaps take tea

tim for

*.

an autobiographical work, un- with friends there, By six der the title "Sixteen Self o'clock, he is home again, t his Sketches". In which he shed desk writing letters and the new light on his parents, his world-famous Shavian post- childhood in Ireland, his early cards -until it political activities and his love dinner. life. Renders detected that Show to pay

for the privilege of sequences of the Marshall Plan. printing them.

When he looks back on his had earlier supplied parts of This sudden SUCCCES has brash days when he asked King this same narrative to biograph -N the tiny package of fought, sung, talked and bam- inevitably led to many ques- Boris of Bulgaria to sell himers who had published studies of power of this man of 93. Mr

is

tions about the authorship of rome elephants or wired Lord his career.

a column. "They claim I have Halifax for the exclusive rights

By

Milton Shulman

humanity known

boozled his way to the pinnacle

sald.

now

This full programme demon- strates the spirit and Intellectual

they find him "physically shrun-

Show himself asserts that he is slowly losing his sight, hearing of Broadway eminence." Billy Rose are wrapped

By the time he was 19 he

Much of the remainder of the and sense of taste. He complaine a brother with three heads and, to exhibit Rudolph Hess, heos corrected asmessments of too of loss of memory. Visitors four Jumbo-sized careers was the prize exhibit in a fierce 11 arms who writes it for me, rather regrets this transforma-inscht which Mr Shaw found to his country retreat report that shorthand expert, song competition between two rival

started to But there is 50 tlon. " have He bod Rose and shorthand systems. writer, showman

achieved the incredible speed doubt that Rose writes his deal in understatements," columnist.

of 280 words a minute and the articles himself with the aid told me, "and I'm not sure that 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.

knew before." But there was Uitle future in He spends about three to five

shorthand writer.

he

faulty.

Shaw will be 03 on July 28.

*

A

false himself or

ken

a little, but mentally alert. min_comusing,“

"My soul goes marching ont, Each one has brought him

Life Fores would and, if the wealth and fame, Together

give me a body as durable as my they have kept this 40-year-

few weeks hence, bis new mind, and I knew better how to old synthesis of P. T. Barnum.

waiting for a world to start hours painfully pollshing up No. Illusions

play "Buoyant Bullons" will feed and lodge and dress and Irving Berlin and O. Henry as speaking 280 words a minute, cach column, and the resultant

Rose has no

have it's British premiere at the behave, I might begin a political. busy as a juggler twirling four and Rose decided there was style is faithful mirror of the RUT

Billusions about

Malvern Festival--the postwar career as a junior elvil servant

the balls while doing a soft-shoe money.

of the song-writing way Rose thinks, talks and act his function in life. in

annual and evolve into a capabla Cabinet resumption dance and balancing a goldfish business.

When Minister in another hundred In fact, the ink smudges on hig bowl on the tip of his nose.

"I am no politician or pundit, Theatre in his honour.

Mr Shaw wrote in In the past year he has nar

Setting about his task with Angers have become to absorb but merely an amiable, semi-produced in Zurich last October, years or so",

fellow

who this play was given a polite but a new postscript to a recent

unenthusiastic reception..

edition of one of his plays. rowed his activities down to the detachment of an accoun- ed in his blood that today his bewildered little

wants to say his plece," he

George Bernard Shaw is now writing a column three times a tant, he analysed the song hits writing is the most important

sald. "My column will remain

"Buoyant Bililone"

was Mr something of a National Institu- week, broadcasting five minutes of the past three decades. This of his many activities.

popular as long as I don't Shaw's first play for ten years; on. In addition to the constant book, run showed him that daily, finishing

forget that I'm primarily doing but since writing it he has seen stream of visitors to Ayot St. Horseshoe lar Bongs ning his Diamond

a vaudeville show,"

busy with others. His disciples Lawrence, he receives correspon night-club which seats

730 variations of the

"oo" sound THE realisation that he now

has an audience of some That is the ideal philosophy await with keen interest a new dence from all over the world: people, and managing the Zieg- and sentimental phrases which

could be easily remembered by 30,000,000 people has had u for a man who still gets his play, he has written for six appeals for charity, appeals for feld Theatre, which he owns.

sobering influence on Rose.

when someone marionettes, which is also to be opinions on the pet fetishes of This feat of energetic vir- tongue-tled lovers

biggest thrill His conversation these days calls him The Greatest Show-produced at the Malvern Fes his correspondents, appeals for he accomplishes

With songs filce **Barney

help to budding authors. tival. such concentrate an

Called working from a bedroern-office Google with the Gan-goo-googly topics as the fron Curtain, flat- man in the World.

"Shakespeare and

(Continued on Page 5) a battery of five tele- Eyes." "It's Only 1 Paper vation in Calcutia and the con-

~~~(London Express Service; Shaw," It describes "a hitherto phones and by-moving-rapidly-Moon" and "I-Found-n-Million-

tuosity

with

by

most popu Sobering Influence

contained syllabir

in a variety of directions for Dollar Baby in a 5 and 10 Cent about 90 hours a week.

35,000-Mile Tour

NEEDING a holiday from this

exhausting maelstrom, he set ex-swimming chum- with his

a 15- pion wife Eleanor, on week, 35,000-mile tour around the world.

Ile intends to share the truits

"okyo, how in Paris he dis-

the New Look

Store," he was soon carning

more than £15,000 a year.

Most Profitable

ין'

tends to

INVENTOR'S DREAMS

COME TRUE

CENSING his instinct as 1 N electro-encephalograph, over Europe, it demonstrated craft, They included new type elaborate version of a penny-

showman, he produced

called "Crazy Quut

A

the "mechanical

a

microscope,

which

the Eon for use

›

the back of

the

of sea

machine-ls used doctor" clearly how our one-time "In- circular scale oil pressure m-in-the-slot

trade" hns, dicators; platinum resistance at Harwell to check the hands. and clothing of workers musical and toured with it throughout which diagnoses brain il- strument-making the country behind one of the nesses automatically; a laundry under the impetus of scientine bulbs for the measurement of feet

which measures advances and the emergence of temperatures from 250 to plus who have been in contact with

Centigrade; publielly

sen- radio-active materials, to as- campaigns photometer,

a 500 degrees Into expanded the noisiest

cleanliness of clothes; an electronics, electronic "nose" of this global experience with the West had ever experienced.

slive allimeters with a range up certain that all harmful con- which great British industry, hose"), ad smells" smoke and rings a fre "War-time the readers of his column. He But his most original

achievements to 70,000 feet; a simply-operated inmination has been removed "stroboscopic light will tell them how in Rio de profitable idea was the Aqu

consolidated," re- periscople sextant designed es- before they leave the establish have been device" by which a deaf-mute

pecially to meet the requirement. Janeiro Evita Peron, the wife ende, which he brought to the larm;

in 1930, devle

G. Ingioments of pressurized aircraft; could tune

a plano; electronle marked Professor

Naval scientists showed the Argentine President, New York World Fair of the

the efforts of 200 watch-timing equipment, which French, the Society's President, a new visual navigational ald and Eleanor discussed women's Through

# few and many new advances have for use with Robecca Mark IV. latest in submarine rescue op- shoe styles instead of world bathing girls swimming rhythe tests a clock within

There remains millimetro wave been made. politics; how it felt to be the mically to a 60-piece orchestra seconds;

cleared

This is a beum in a watertight fitting which is 0 nel

landing ald. profit of lengths; new alloys; an electron hardly a single field in which equipment; and a new aircraft paratus- anall choulder lamp of General MacArthur in ho

£500,000 In two seasons.

Epproach Indicator with crossed fixed on to 11 nightclub,

BY PETER LOVEGROVE pointers, one of which la opera escape sult and is it automo his Since with

ted from the localiser signaitically by the action Christian Dior; and hew in Diamond Horseshoe, which ha before, was

frms cannot compete and the other by the glide path water, it will. burh continuous- Rome he told

magnifies British a joke to the opened the year

of signal. It has been fully tested ly for thirty hours. Popc. "When he laughed at my also grossing about £300,000 a

countries, and many of and

by the Ministry

with The operational advantage of; story I got the feeling nobody year, Rose found that at the 100.000 times and is used to on equal terms with those

grain of five powders and the the instruments exhibited were of Civil

landing system

using beam techniques in radar had told the Pope a joke for a age of 40 the motive force of examine minute organisms, the other long time," said Billy Rose money was no longer driving shape of smoke parilcles; and a the best of their find.

for civil aircraft. Interference became obvious during the war him anywhere. He bought him balance which will register a

The electro-encephalograph,

great impelus by equipment

hulldings and

centimetrowave- self à country house and stuff weight of one-hundredth of a ed it with onlique furniture milligramme, are some of the which can also be employed an adjacent to the airport is mini- work and a collection of paintings

and a lle-detector, to able to locate, mised, and it also incorporates lengths. During that period scientifle developments

minutes, brain dis warning indicators which show techniques were evolved which.

·which includes Rembrandt, strange now Ideas seen in Lon- in a few

"short!

be entimen men-hours to diagnose. From signals are not being received. ns

Since then, the Tele- attached"

the maching Physical Society's 33rd annual pallent's head.

In addition to the commer- tablishment has been attemp- otchlelion club. His bit, 3in, are conser- THEN, one day in 1945. he be-exhibition, held at the Imperial due to the nervous activity of cial Arms, the vatively covered in neat, well- zon writing a series of ads. College of Science in

at the Atting clothes, while his face for the Diamond Horseshoe, Kensington, one of the biggest the brain, analyses the symptions of Government Depart on still shorter

writes them down mento showed examples of the its display at

cluded the design of an oscilla- "asclentille ovents of the year, toms and

fixed Dans. It has the puffy, tired look of a which

costs physical research they are pur-

suing and the apparatus re- tor which covered a range oci weary olive. He has a pleasant, cabaret featuring the usual 50 One hundred and forty arms with

tablishments £2,000,

The Atome wavelengths, between seven baritone voleo which periodi giris in 49 costumes. So read and

όρ Many

the instrument cently produced. and only appara-

and 12 inlllimetres, and other Research Establish- able cally emits sparkling gems

or Danon tus invented blended

Improved developments on view are go Energy Bynical-wit.

Born on a kitchen table in Runyon and the raucous bark during the preceding year could ing to be of the greatest benest mont, for instance, displayed components for an instrument

Jet varidty of "radiation monitors," aviation, especially on East Side slum in New of the carnival that scores of be included. Attracting scien- to York, Roso hos scratched, papers were sean clamourtig hats and businessmen from a propelled and high-alutude nir- one of which-looking like an

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A Weary Olive

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