Theatre: One-Night Stand

Few actors ever have a chance to make an entrance that has been built-up for 40 years. In Manhattan one night last week George Bernard Shaw, playwright and actor, made such an entrance.

To heighten the effect he tried to deny himself on the day of the performance to the world's sharpest newshawks—the cameramen of New York Harbor—by shutting himself up in his suite on the world-cruising Empress of Britain. After registering becoming reluctance he emerged at last, only to lose composure when one of the hawks shouted the old cry, "Tell...

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