He was paying super tax and complaining bitterly about it as long ago as 1910, but then he was mainly having trouble about his wife's income.
He once described his wife as an Irish millionairess, and loves to hint that he married this intelligent, cultured woman for her money.
Mr. Shaw is said to be a very &enerous man, but he does his best publicly to disguise it. In spite of his fiery, biting wit, he is very warmhearted.
All hose around him adore bim.
To his wife he is "the genius." His famous secretary, Miss Blanche Patch, shares her opinion.
At the block of flats, Whitehall-court, near Scotland-yard, where he has lived for the past ten years or so, the whole staff think the world hin The hall porter tells many a story of Shaw's Fowriesy and kindliness. "I've never seen Mr. Shaw rude to any one," he told me. "Life is never dull with Mr. Shaw about," said the lift boy. "He's a dear old gentleman."
But this brilliant, eccentric, lovable man is only human like the rest of us. Whatever he does with his money he "can't take it with him."
He has, however, the love of friends, which. according t5 Mr. Frank Caprab film success, you can take with you.
In spite of the fact that most people would rather be insulted by Shaw' than ignored, and usually are, he has countless friends and admire ers. But if you want to stay a friend, don't accáse. him of being millionaire. 5 "Is Shaw in his dotage now some one asked me the other day. Dotage, my foot. The brilliance of his brain is such that...well, I only wish I'd been alive, or rather old enough to appreciate him. when his beard was still red!
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