SCOTS ANGRY

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1928, Page 5

SCOTS ANGRY

WITI-I C. B. SHAW

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, November 3. Air Bernard Shaw’s custom of sending a printed postcard, curtly refusing to open bazaars, or to speak at public dinners, has stirred up a hornet’s nest in the Trinity Literary Society at Glasgow, which offered the dramatist a fee olf forty guineas to come and speak but received only his usual postcard.. Instead of meekly receiving Mr Shaw’s “ No,” the Rev. Mr H. S. McClelland, the President, is reported as having pointed out that Mr (>. K. Chesterton, Dean Inge, Sir O. Lodge. Mi- Augustine Birrell, Dr Barnes, Mr .John Masefield, and other prominent men. had accepted the invitation of the Society, whereas Mr Shaw had accompanied his refusal by some giatuitous and “typically insolent” advice to hand over the foe of forty guineas to sonic young man. Rev. Mr McClelland, added that “the replies of other lecturers of international reputation showed that it was possible to be both a genius and a gentleman.” He could not accept the plea, that Mr Bernard Shaw was too busy, as be had ample time to bask almost naked on a raft in the sunny seas of the Riviera, or to spend an evening with a famous Yankee pugilist. . Mr Shaw has replied to the Society with a postcard** in broadest Doric, as follows Hoots, hoots, mon ! Dinua tak’ offence wliaur mine is meant, and gie ver siller to the young ane 1 telt ye.” He added a postscript: “I trust this is worthy of a devoted student of Burns and Scott.”