georgebernardshaw

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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:

She usually is referenced as "Mrs. Patrick Campbell."

Absolutely, Wystan. And Pygmalion has only one "l". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Patrick_Campbell "In 1914, she played Eliza Doolittle in the original production of Shaw's Pygmalion; though much too old for the part at 49, she was the obvious choice, being by far the biggest name on the London stage, and Shaw would have seen it no other way since he wrote the play for her in particular." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_%28play%29 "It [Pygmalion] opened in London April 11, 1914 at Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's His Majesty's Theatre and starred Mrs. Campbell as Eliza and Tree as Higgins." Pygmalion is the play on which the musical "My Fair Lady" is based.

Another Bain/LOC photo of Mrs. Campbell in "Pygmalion": And another Bain/LOC photo of Mrs. Campbell:

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

A Bain/LOC photo of Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle in "Pygmalion," posted to Flickr on May 6, 2011: