TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK.
WHAT G. B. SHAW EARNED. OLD DAYS OF STAR. LONDON, Alarch 18. Lord Oxford and Mr T. P. O’Connor, M.P., laid the commemoration stones of the Daily News and Star building, at the corner of Bouverie and Tuclor streets. Tho principal proprietor of the Daily News, Mr Henry Cadbury, said that the old building was designed for a newspaper with a circulation of 30 000, but the daily sales in 1925 averaged 1,250,000. Tho new machinery would print 250,000 papers an hour. Mr O’Connor recalled that he employed Air G, Bernard Shaw at 10s a week to write the Star’s dramatic criticisms. Some of these were amazing, notably this one: “The orchestra was playing brilliantly. Suddenly the flautist looked at me sternly. I lost the thread of tho music.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 105, 3 April 1926, Page 7
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133TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 105, 3 April 1926, Page 7
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