B. SHAW’S HEAD
dI S P 0S A l’after death.
IRISH PLAN TO BAN BOOK.
LONDON, July 12
“The first I Heard of it. I had no idea I had anything in my head I could sell,” said Mr Bernard Shaw, concerning a' report that a rich scientist had offered £5,000 for Jus head after death. ],lr Shaw refused' 1 to discuss the report that he has already bequeathed his 'he ad to the Royal College of Surgeiio is. An. official of the, college 'says: “We shall be very pleased to receive the' bequest, hut really 'wo prefer normal heads.”
The Irish Free State Minister of Justice is inviting the Censorship Committee to reconsider banning Mr Shaw’s hook, “Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of Cod,” on the ground thnf' the illustrations are indecent.. The Irish Academy of Letters has in-, formed the Minister that the illustrations are renroduetious of pictures in the Sistine Chapel, Rome.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1933, Page 3
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157B. SHAW’S HEAD Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1933, Page 3
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