Show i G. G B. B Sh haw w With ith Chuckle huckl Poses Pose as Gunman J JI I I Dislikes PublicitY but Anyway Ponders Clippings I n tt 4 I- I J E- E Sets Sweden the Ea Ea l h by c VJ U 11 h. h DAY t eO iv Wants to Open I II Say lb G. G 0 4 A CASH OR LI II r I 7 cot C cl tt D cl j i II c ll yo i 0 C b. b 01 i I 1 IC Gc I 1 0 c C c I ft I 0 rL t. t r 1 1 1 o i 1 I f i d' d I I d w. w w r h. h q u. u io N- N w 0 1 n J JJ rc r. r t iJ t iA t II 4 rL 44 4 v f ic k 1 0 f 1 M l r I 1 4 By JAMES P. P HOWE LONDON LO March arch 26 Ber AP-Ber- nard hard Shaw Is otten oCten at his best In Inthe the thc morning lIe was so good the theother theother other da day just after breakfast as to threaten to shoot me The threat was made over the telephone Mr Ill Shaw iia a perfect telephone voice there was as no misunderstanding misunderstanding mis- mis understanding him Furthermore if It ever comes to toa toa a showdown wn there were four other listeners who overhead the Nobel prize winner In In a very gruff tone say these very words It If you dare do that I will shoot you ou The listeners who heard this remark re- re marl mark were wele Mrs Shaw Miss Blanche Patch his long and trusted secretary and the Shaw housekeeper housekeeper house house- keeper and cook I had called up Uj the author at his London apartment to ask it If he would be be Interested In a great greatbatch greatbatch batch of clippings of an interview carried by the Associated Press and published extensively throughout the United States The Interview was granted November 19 last and related to the Nobel prize Ill Mr Shaw said most emphatically that he was not In the least Interested interested Inter Inter- ested In clippings about himself or anything else It was explained that there were caricatures and very old photographs photo photo- graphs and snappy headlines In black Ink and In red and green and pink and he was sure to get CI a laugh out of the varied assortment It If I should see that scrapbook growled the grizzled Fabian I would die at nce There were further explanations to the effect that the book of clippings clippings clip clip- pings had most assuredly n not t been conceived to cause any Y uch calamity calamity calam- calam ity as that but this remark went unheeded Ill bring the book along I 1 ventur ventured d and put It on your d sk k kyou you may glance through It t your leisure It was at this point that the voice bristled l a bit and mad the threat which If executed have brought me untold fame But even as It Is is I am perhaps the first person who has been so menaced menaced men men- aced by this world renowned literary literary liter liter- ary figure Ten minutes after Mr Ir Shaw made his gesture as a gunman I Iwas Iwas was standing at the the iron gate with Its prongs and wire nettings bars the stairway to his second second- floor apartment In Terrace overlooking the Thames embankment embank embank- ment Patch summoned by a maid appeared Im th fellow Mr Shaw threatened threatened threat threat- ened to shoot a few minutes s ago I said meekly Oh yes Miss Patch laughed I thought you OU would take the hint and she opened the Yale Yale- gate which rattled and nd clanged behind as we climbed to the forbidden den Mr Ill Shaw was not glad to see me Not for the world would he look at atthe atthe i the clippings le He hates publicity I and newspapers he said and re- re porters but l he e pored over o the for half an an hour or so and then he wrote The contents o this scrapbook form Corm a masterpiece of modern jour jour- This testimonial is to be interpreted In the most unfavorable serse ThEn with a flourish ho he signed m G Bernard Shaw London February laly 1927 and the dee deed was done one As I departed scrapbook under underarm arm my host of the moment before remarked softly almost gently Ill get you yet and as I closed the door I heard him chuckling heartily all to himself COMMON SENSE AIDS Dr 1 Henry Van Yan Dyke flyke with his usual us- us ual felicity cf phrase comments comment that In Miss liss Underhill's suggestive and helpful book Concerning the thc Inner Life LICe spiritual common sense aids mysticism re service r I. I |