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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish playwright and critic. He revolutionized the Victorian stage, then dominated by artificial melodramas, by presenting vigorous dramas of ideas. The lengthy prefaces to Shaw's plays reveal his mastery of English prose. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in... Read more |
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Richard Norman Shaw
Richard Norman Shaw 1831-1912, English architect. Breaking away from contemporary Victorian house designs and returning to the Queen Anne and Georgian styles and to traditional English craftsmanship and use of materials, Shaw became the leader of a revolution in domestic architecture. He is... Read more |
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Irwin Shaw
Shaw, Irwin (1913–84),Brooklyn‐born writer whose works are marked by dramatic intensity and social awareness. His plays include Bury the Dead (1936); Siege (1937); The Gentle People (1939); Retreat to Pleasure (1940); Sons and Soldiers (1944), about a woman dreaming of the life of her... Read more |
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Robert Lawson Shaw
Robert Lawson Shaw 1916-99, American conductor, b. Red Bluff, Calif. Moving to New York City after college, he founded and led the Fred Waring Glee Club (1938-45) and the Collegiate Chorale (1941-54). In 1946 he became head of the choral division of the Julliard School, a post he held until 1950.... Read more |
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Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw 1847-1919, American woman-suffrage leader, b. England. She emigrated (1851) to the United States in early childhood and grew up on a farm in Michigan. She received a degree in theology (1878) and one in medicine (1885) from Boston Univ. Although the Methodist Episcopal Church... Read more |
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Sir Max Beerbohm
Sir Max Beerbohm , 1872-1956, English essayist, caricaturist, and parodist. He contributed to the famous Yellow Book while still an undergraduate at Oxford. In 1898 he succeeded G. B. Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review. A charming, witty, and elegant man often called "the... Read more |
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John Shaw
Shaw, John (John C. Shaw)PERSONALFull name, John C. Shaw. Education: Attended film and theatre school in Canada.Addresses:Manager—Collingwood Management, 1572 West Fourth Ave., Second Floor, Vancouver V6J 1L7, British Columbia, Canada.Career:Actor. Appeared in advertisements.Member:Canadian Actors'... Read more |
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Josh Billings
Josh Billings pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818-85, American humorist and lecturer, b. Lanesboro, Mass. After a roving life as farmer, explorer, and coal miner, he settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as an auctioneer and real estate dealer. In 1860 he began to write humorous sketches and homespun... Read more |
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Francesco Guardi
Francesco Guardi , 1712-93, Venetian landscape and architectural painter. A follower of Canaletto, he developed a freer style of great brilliance. Guardi's work ranges from elaborate architectural scenes to spontaneous and delightful capricci, both in painting and drawings. His many charming... Read more |
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Oscar Straus
Oscar Straus , 1870-1954, Austrian composer; studied in Vienna and with Max Bruch in Berlin. After a brief career as conductor he turned entirely to composition. His operas and instrumental works are eclipsed by his successful operettas, particularly A Waltz Dream (1907) and The Chocolate Soldier... Read more |
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Publisher Max Reinhardt Dead at 86
...went on to publish works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn...However, when Reinhardt asked Shaw to write a new introduction to the volume, Shaw retorted, "My...her." In 1957, Reinhardt and a merchant banker...brought his own work to Bodley Head...Ambler. It also published Robert M. ... |
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Publisher Max Reinhardt dead at 86
...Shaw, who allowed Reinhardt to reissue his correspondence...However, when Reinhardt asked him to write...to the volume, Shaw retorted, "My...her." In 1957, Reinhardt and a merchant banker...brought his own work to the Bodley Head...Ambler. It also published Robert M. Pirsig... |
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Obituary: Max Reinhardt Able and affable publisher and friend of Graham Greene
MAX REINHARDT was one of the foremost...Unwin in 1957, he published the work of authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Graham Greene...theatre director), Reinhardt grew up among the...Shaw, and he also published Ivor Brown, Paul... |
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Also noted.(NEWS)(Obituary)
...Twilight Zone" to viewers. Max Reinhardt, 86, a book publisher whose first signing was George Bernard Shaw and who went on to publish works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and...Trevor and Eric Ambler. It also published Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen...and Alvin Toffler's seminal work, "Future Shock." |
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The man who made big Tammy's fiddle sing like a bird
...he first heard Django Reinhardt, those chords, and...sitting room, trying to work out what the hell the...other fiddlers too. Reinhardt with Grappelli. No matter...once, with Shuldham Shaw. Folk festivals, and...from Shetland Music, published by the Shetland Library... |