Any man whose pen jabs as recklessly as George Bernard Shaw's must expect reprisals. One came to him last week. The Royal Academy showed him the door in effigy. They refused to hang his portrait by John Collier.
It was a heavily pointed shaft, for Artist Collier has been an honored exhibitor in the Academy for a full half-century. His work is thoroughly respectable. His portrait of Aldous Huxley, offered at the same time, was accepted. Obviously something was the matter.
"Words fail me," said Mr. Collier. "I consider the rejected picture the...
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