SHAW HUMOUR

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 April 1933, Page 7

SHAW HUMOUR

ADDRESS AT NEW YORK. [BY CABLE—PRffiSB ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.I NEW YORK, April 11. During his twenty-four hour halt here before continuing his . ■world cruise Mr G. B. Shaw made his lone public appearance to address the Academy of Political Science at the Metropolitan Opera House on the su iect of “The Future of Political Science in America.” He offeredhis customary raps at American * nstd - a tions, but later he lapsed into moments of seriousness, telling his. five thousand listeners: “It is possible America may save the human race yet ” During the day Mr Shaw did his best to evade reporters. He will remain on the boat over-night before sailing. There was no official receptloll' LATER. Mr Shaw, in the first speech of his life on American soil, to-night told his large American audience what he thought of their financiers, their President, their movie colonies and their Statue of Liberty. The financiers of America he called “95 per cent, lunatics.” Hollywood, he said, was “one of the most immoral places in the world because it promulgated anarchy.” The United States Constitution he called “the Charter of Anarchy.” The Statue of Liberty, he said, “to a Britisher is a monstrous idol, and on it should hang the inscription, “Abandon hope all ye who enter here ” He said the “hundred per cent. American’? w'as ‘‘nothing but wind.” He repeated his statement that President Roosevelt had been elected because, by happy chance, he got photographed with a baby, adding: “Franklin Roosevelt, I am appealing to you to get rid of your constitution!” The American election meetings he branded as “scandalous and disgusting spectacles.”