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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | December 18, 1929 issue

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A playwright of the better sort is ranked as an artist and people pity him because he must make his necessary arrangements with hard-headed commercial managers. George Bernard Shaw is an artist and Lee Shubert is a manager. Both are eminent and both are primarily concerned with the theater. At the current quotations the visionary Mr. Shaw is richer than the practical Mr. Shubert in both cash and kudos. To be sure, Mr. Shubert is far more sentimental than Mr. Shaw and this may mark the extent of his handicap. But mostly the theater business suffers from a lack of managers sufficiently grasping to get all the traffic will bear.

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DRAMATISTS; SHAW, Bernard, 1856-1950; SHUBERT, Lee; EXECUTIVES; BUSINESS; THEATER
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