SHAW ON HOUSING.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 21

SHAW ON HOUSING.

When on tho staff of the "Daily Mail" many years ago, Mr. Frank Butter was commissioned to secure an interview on housing conditions. On tho strength of a very slight acquaintance, lie wrote asking Mr. BernardShaw for an appointment: "Shaw was not then tho world-famous dramatist he in now, but even then ho was a 'big noise,' as the Americans say, and I knew ho would be a fine man to interview on tho subject. On tho strength of this ono meeting and the casual introduction I wrote to Shaw, telling him what I wanted and 'asked if he would consent. Two tl;iys later I received .n long envelope enclosing a, typewritten 'interview' on tlie 'Housing Problem,' far wittier and moro intelligent than I could possibly have manufactured even with his verbal aid, and —best of all—a note inside saying: 'Mako what use you like-of the enclosed, and como to tea at 4 p.m. on Thursday, when we',cau talk of otlicr things.' " „