TIRED OF G.B.S.!
A bright idea occurred recently to someone on the London “Daily Express”—to hold a plebiscite to find out what persons people were most tired of reading about. In the result Bernard Shaw came first. After him followed Amy Mollison, Sir Oswald Mosley, Ramsay MacDonald and Greta Garbo in that order. Bernard Shaw expressed himself as delighted with the voting—he regards it as his highest title to fame. To be so much talked about, so much discussed, that you are the one person in the world whom newspapei readers want least to hear mentioned—if that isn’t glory, what is?
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 11
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101TIRED OF G.B.S.! Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 11
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