YOU NEVER CAN TELL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 24, 20 April 1927, Page 11

YOU NEVER CAN TELL

TO-MORROW The Auckland Little Theatre Society will open its 1927 season with the production for three nights of George Bernard Shaw’s comedy, “You Never Can Tell,” at the Town Hall concert chamber to-morrow evening. When the society presented the same author’s "Fanny’s First Play,” a slight misunderstanding arose with Shaw’s local agent. The committee wrote to the great G. 8.5., and in due time received a characteristic reply. It ran: “Like every sensible author I am anxious to encourage these enterprises by every means in my power. I accept eighteen pence respectfully and gratefully when there is only thirty shillings in the house, and remonstrate with other authors who crush such enterprises with impossible fees and conditions, but the societies occasionally drive me to the verge of madness by their total inabiilty to think of anything else but the next play they are going to do.”