A SHAW LETTER.
SENT TO AUCKLAND. The well-known modesty of G. B. Shaw comes to the fore even in a private letter written a while ago to Mr. Henry Hayward, of Auckland, whom he met while visiting this. city. Extracts from Mr. Shaw's letter ran as below. — "I never have been a professional lecturer, I am a political speaker, and my subjects are of a highly controversial kind. At 78 I have to keep off the platform as much as possible, and in my visit to New Zealand, had no pecuniary interests to serve. ... "Just before leaving London I did a little talkie interview of a quite harmless kind. Possibly it may come your way., "This is also a non-professional affair —I have a friend in the industry whom I can help by occasionally letting him tempt me into fooling with the camera and the microphone." And so on.
Richard Tauber arrived in London recently to take up his role of Schubert in "Blossom Time," under the direction of Paul Stein.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 5 (Supplement)
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