The Archive · 1938

Shaw's Next Play

Londoners are wondering if they are to be favoured with the world of the next Bernard Shaw The last two plays—"The Sim-and performed on the Continent, "Geneva," as the latest Shavian contribution to contemporary thought is called, is now approaching completion, If London is again passed over the play will probably be produced in Switzerland.

Just as characters who were thinly disguised English politicians appeared in "Back to Methuselah," so Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and other leading statesmen will be recognized in some of the -characters in "Geneva."

Those who write books or plays on current world topics run the risk of producing a work that is out-of-dite almost before the ink on their lost page is dry, so swiftly and sud-y do events move. This has hap-ned recently to writers of books

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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