Shaw

For a long time U. S. film companies have been trying to get George Bernard Shaw to let them make cinemas out of his plays. He used to say that while he lived no such thing would happen. Last week in London he capitulated, signed with British-International Pictures a contract written by himself arranging for a talkie to be made of his play How He Lied to Her Husband. Said he: "The poor old theatre is done for, I'm afraid. All my plays will be made into talkies before long. What other course is open to me? The theatre may survive as a place where people are taught to act. Apart from that, there will be nothing but talkies soon. How can second and third rate traveling stock companies, with all expenses to meet, compete with films, which may cost anything from a quarter of a million dollars up to produce? ... I have signed the contract now because I want to make some money."

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