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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, 'APRIL 12, 1933 6 Sees Ray Of Hope Still For America May Yet Save the Human Race, He Says in His Metropolitan Speech By FRANK EMERY The Terrible George Bernard Shaw turned out to be nice and kind and gentle and even little bit sentimental in his one and only address on American soil made last night before a distinguished evening-attired audience of 4,000 in the Metropolitan Opera House. An Optimistic Turn America has much to be optimistic about now that the longawaited, much-dreaded American speech of the Irish iconoclast has been uttered. Shaw pulled his punches, equipped the famous Shavian cudgels with velet tips. His eyes twinkled as he propounded new Shavianisms and traced the an evolution obscure of the Jonathan" type President Roosevelt. did resurrect the "100-percentax American for amiable spoofing, indulged in his grievances with Hollywood and "jaw socking" heroes, acclaimed the American Constitution as one of the "final achievements of anarchism." Steering into contemporary affairs, Shaw promised that "You will get nothing from him (President Roosevelt if he has to go on under the Constitution with the usual rotten Congress and all the rest of it" and predicted that former President Hoover "will be discovered again to be a perfectly successful man." Yet Save Human Race' Thousands of words later, after congratulating America her, good fortune accruing from Russia being under communistic control, the original Shavian reversed himselt to exclaim: "Possibly America may yet save the human race." The "Uncle Jonathan" of the '60s was Shaw's introduction to "100- percent" and he was described as "a tremendous talker, a man of magnificent periods and splendid perorations, an orator who shouted an abominating sort of man.

He was in the air, and consequently you got nothing out of him but wind. "I have traveled a great deal, but I have never in my country seen anything like the 100-percent American." Now Shaw digressed on the Constitution, What you really find it, he said, "is a charter of anarchism. It was not an instrument of government; it was a guarantee to the whole nation that it never could be governed at all. And it was exactly what they wanted. "It is just as true of the ordinary Englishman the ordinary American the ordinary man an anarchist.

He wants to do what he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he doesn't want to governed himself. "The result is," as Shaw analyzed it, "is that you are very much afraid of dictators, and you arrived at a state of society in which every ward boss was a dictator and in which every financier was, in his way, a dictator. 'Monstrous Idol' "And to this state of things, this defeat of all governments, you put up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call The only thing that remains to complete that statue is to put on its pedestal 'All hope abandon, ye who enter Hollywood, Shaw declared, is "one of the most immoral places in the world." But by "immoral" the speaker did not mean "ladies skirts or stockings or things of that kind," or "that very admirable thing, sex appeal. "The real thing with which you are corrupting the world is the anarchism of he you put a string heroes in front of people and all of them are anarhcists and the one answer to anything annoying or to any breach of the law is to give the other person a sock in the jaw.

Declaring that President Roosevelt is "appealing to you at the present time to get rid of your confounded Constitution and give him the power govern," Shaw narrated that "Congress is there to prevent him." Hoover, he said, ceased to be a practical man when he became President, and, by repeating his gag of last November, Roosevelt was elected because "by a happy chance he got photographed with a baby." 'End of Capitalism' Delving into the depression and unemployment, Shaw provoked a gale of applause when he ventured that "these mark the end of capitalism." "I see the majority of you are unemployed," he returned to the meticulous audience, "So much the better." Shaw made a plea for cancellation of war debts and an appreciation of Henry George, the American from whom he acknowledged having drawn his political philosophy. FILMS RESUME FULL PAY Hollywood, April 12 (P)-Five motion picture studios have announced resumption of full salary payments to players and two others were expected to take similar action today. Shaw, Sailing, Denies Insult to Miss Keller; 'Was Compliment' Continued From Page 1 night that the American press, like the press of the rest of the world, existed to conceal the truth, but, he conceded. the "financiers" who control the press are not clever enough to do what they want to do and truth frequently creeps into the printed page It was a an which, at minterview times, was respectful and at others mildly, heated opposition-but the flares arose in the questions of individual newspaper questioners and were usually put out by deft and jesting and even Shavian replies. conciliators, the tall, bearded gentleman from across the seas jested at the mild expense of his visitors and not infrequently he turned the jest on himself.

Amused by Enthusiasm Here himself. Too Fast for Shorthand Men He mentioned, with humorous satisfaction, the "wild enthusiasm" for he found in America but rather thought that on his next visit nobody would notice him. Somebody expressed a polite hope that there would be a next visit. "All mankind may hope," he laughed, but for a man of 77, he indicated, the hope was probably vain. The interview took place in the rose pink salon of the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, on which he arrived yesterday and sailed again at noon and on which, when I he reaches Southampton, Shaw will have completed his first tour around the world.

As Alert, at 77, as Reporters Half the men of the press who gathered to question him were young enough to be his grandsons, but he seemed, as he sat down for what others might consider a trying experience, the youngest and most alert of any one in the room. Sometimes the Shavian brow contracted in puzzled furrows as he tried to get the point of a question, more frequently smiled and laughed at his own replies. Despite the nearly two hours of talking last night, there was no sign of fatigue in the man. He obviously enjoyed conversation was entirely cordial." Why Suppress War, He Asks Would Mr. Shaw 1 be interested in He talked rapidly, clearly, with a certain unquestionable energy about him that, you might call electric, with Shavian logic that seemed altogether convincing while he talked, although in the cold light of a rereading of a reporter's notes later the answers he gave did not always appear to a answer the questions.

He spoke at such great length that even the questioners equipped with shorthand complained they could not take down all he said. He had breakfasted at 8 o'clock with Princess Troubetzkoy, Robert Lorraine and another representative of the Theater Guild. He came out at 9, was informed that reporters were already there, but declined to dip be drawn into any interview until the time scheduled. A little after 9:30 the interview began. "Well, gentlemen," he began, sitting on a sofa at one end of the salon.

And then: "Fire away." The "firing" started at once. He had carefully refrained from offending anybody last night, some one suggested, but did he care to be offensive today? "I never offended anybody," said Mr. Shaw. "There would be no occasion for such a question if things had not been printed about me that I did not say." Explains Keiler Incident Then bobbed up the question about Miss Keller -the "All Americans are deaf and blind-and dumb" remark he is said to have made in the presence of a remarkable woman who has been deaf and blind since childhood. came answer, "if I had "If the story had been instilled Miss Keller, the reporter who reported it should have been shot.

He was trying to hit me across Miss Keller. The explanation is simple. I complimented her on the fact that she could hear and speak much better than a majority of her countrymen. We parted on cordial and decent terms. I don't believe any one seriously believed I insulted her." Some one said it was Miss Keller herself was the reporter.

Ask Miss Keller, Shaw Says "What she did say," said Shaw, "was that she had told on me. You ask her. Naturally, as an American, she was complimented, and wanted to let others know of the compliment. Americans are that way." But she had called the incident a flaw in Shaw's character, whom she admired. "If you ask her, you will find our forming a society of intellectuals to abolish war, one eager young reporter asked.

"Why suppress war? War is, after all, a method of killing people, and a great many people ought to be killed." "Including Englishmen?" "A great many of them." "And Irishmen?" "Nearly all." "And newspapermen?" A shrug of the Shavian shoulders and, "Remember, I was a newspaper man myself once." Came a question about the American Constitution, which Mr. Shaw last night wanted to have scrapped. He stood by his proposal, repeating that the Constitution was a guarantee that nobody would be governed. "I realize," he added, "that in EASTER BASKETS Prompt Deliveries Everywhere ECKLEBE GUYER 1 De Kalb Ave. TRiangle 5-3331 Accent of Shaw Not Brooklynese This is the 1 way Brooklynites caught the pronunciation of familiar words as heard in the rich flow of beautiful Shavian English: fig-gah (figure) heah (here) privvicy (privacy) short 1 organ-eye-zation (organization) civil-eye-zation (civilization) kawrious (curious) riddicuhluss (ridiculous) fin-nan-cier (financier) accent second syllable this world it is a difficult matter to be free.

Everybody wants to be free. I want to be free, but ognize that I can't be free the whole time. willing to give two or three hours of my time so as to earn my freedom within limits." "Something was said in an afternoon paper today-" Instantly Shaw dug down for his watch. "It is now half-past nine and do you mean to there are afternoon papers on say, streets already." The mystery, which no doubt was no mystery to him, was explained. Then the "typical 100 percent American" question.

It wasn't President Roosevelt the elder, he meant. Was it Bryan? Picks 100 P.C. American "That's a much better guess. He is almost the perfect example. He had enormous enthusiasm and he employed the absurd effort to monetize silver.

I like this enthusiasm, the tremendous admirations you have. For instance, why do you admire me so? If you had read all my books, all right. But I find that the people who have read my books criticize me and those who haven't admire me. I want to get this enthusiasm employed. Americans suffer from too much unemployed emotion." He said that at greater length than is here recorded.

He mentioned something about the infuence of newspaper paragraphs, which brought a query as to whether Shaw or newspaper paragraphs have greater influence. "Newspaper paragraphs have no influence," he said, "unless I write them." Suppression of News That led to the discussion of whether newspapers do suppress, or conceal, the truth. One valiant of the Fourth Estate demanded proof. "It is a simple fact. Your newspapers are in the hands of big money.

You only need to offend and you'll find what money does to you." And as the questioner persisted that Mr. Shaw was wrong: "I am glad to see you are satisfied." "I think you are using your imagination." "Well. you'll find out." Why did he not longer in New York? Because ship takes state me out" and because this is his first visit and there is "this wild enthusiasm of the American people for me," and "they want to smother me with admiration." Not Impressed by Hitler A Negro may follow the decay of prophcivilization, esied Shaw, and he thought H. L. Mencken "rather unusually intelligent for an American." Hitler is "hardly a personality to me.

When a man begins his career with the persecution of the Jews he is like an army officer who begins his career by cheating at cards. He should have had the strength character to say 'This must not A man with SO little nerve cannot have much of a career." And so the Shavian sparks continued to fly. For instance: "I have no relations with the Almighty but the American people have. The Americans would be pleased to feel that unique phe- nomenon." Hopes Royalties Keep Up "Who is this heroic man who says: 'Why not leave Shaw "I do not care how long what I write lives, as long as the royalties continue while I'm alive." "I hope when I die there will be an end to me. You wouldn't want an eternity of Shaw, Shaw, Shaw, Helen Keller." "You can't get on without dicta- Shaw Gets Verbal Pats and Slaps From 'Fair' Sex Emily Post Calls Him SelfAdvertiser, but Faith Baldwin Says He's Swell By ISABELLE KEATING wright.

Thinks 'He's Swell' Sigh a song, if you will, for the snows of yesteryear. This is the situation. George Bernard Shaw refused an invitation to come to America 25 years ago because he said he feared that he would be arrested at Ellis Island "on the charge of inciting the women of America to immorality by my good looks." Mr. Shaw has changed since then, both in looks and decision. And the women of America have changed, too, it appears.

Amused Tolerance He incited them today to nothing beyond amused tolerance, sometimes tempered with affection, sometimes flecked with asperity and derision.1 His vigorous, lusty insults, his colossal, studied rudeness, his preoccupied attitude toward Mrs. Shaw generally stirred only mild reactions. Said Emily Post, "He is the greatest self -advertiser the world has ever known. American advertisers are babies compared with him. "He has never mentally been out of the spotlight.

"But his rudeness is nothing but a challenge. He knows we don't mind it. I'm sure he is a sentimentalist at heart, and it he really thought he was offending us, he would refrain." Fannie Hurst, who knows a bit herself about the vitriolic fillip, remarked that "more than Shaw, we are to blame for his senile performances. We bray as loud as he brays. It's become a braying contest.

I don't think any one raises an eyebrow any more over his idiosyncrasies. He is just a tiresome old gentleman to whom it's kinder not to listen." On the other hand, Faith Baldwin, the Brooklyn novelist, and the owner of a Shaw autograph, stalwartly defended the Irish play- "I think he's swell," she said. "He does exactly the thing that is expected of him. What if his relations with his wife seem casual? How do we know how their lives are arranged? If she hadn't liked it, she would have punched him in the jaw long since. People shouldn't criticize the way he treats his wife as long as she is satisfied.

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SHAW CHASES CAMERAMEN AWAY P. George Bernard Shaw on board the Empress of Britain just before he sailed away from New York, directing sound cameramen to move their equipment. S. G. B.

Gourlay, 76, Dies at Home Stewart G. B. Gourlay, 76, of 724 Halsey an undertaker who was in business here for 50 years, died yesterday at his home aftter an illness of three weeks of pneumonia. Mr. Gourlay was born Brooklyn and was a member of Brooklyn Lodge, 22, B.

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A. and the Tomahawk Yacht Club. He is survived by his wife, Delia; a son, Everett, and a brother, New Shavianisms "The American Constitution is not an instrument of government; it was a guarantee to a whole nation that it never could be governed at all." "When will we see a film issuing from Hollywood in which the hero, instead of socking the gentleman in the jaw, does the civilized thing and calls a policeman?" "You hope a great deal from Mr. Franklin Roosevelt. will get nothing from him.

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