georgebernardshaw

George Bernard Shaw's play, "Pygmalion" was the prototype for the later wildly successful Broadway musical (and film), "My Fair Lady."

Bain/LOC photo of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in "Pygmalion":

Two Bain/LOC photos of Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle, in "Pygmalion."

Thrilling to see this photo!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)[1] was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.

Thank you Richard Arthur Norton. We will add more information about playwright George Bernard Shaw and the fuller form of his name when we update the database.

He would have been in the news around this time for at least two reasons. His Pygmalion (on which My Fair Lady is based) opened in London in April 1914. Shaw also wrote frequently about the war (or his ideas as to how to achieve peace) in Europe. For example, on November 15, 1914, an article by Shaw was published in the NYT. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05EFD8153FE233A... " COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE WAR"; An Amazing Article Written for The New York Times By George Bernard Shaw This Article Is Copyrighted in the United States of America and Canada by The New York Times. Republication of It in Whole or in Part Is Forbidden. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW WRITES ON EUROPEAN WAR EXTRAORDINARY ARTICLE BY FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT

Here he is with other LSE founders in 1932: