Ocupation: Playwright
Life: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
Birthday: July 26
Death: November 2
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
source: George Bernard Shaw (2006). “Three Plays for Puritans”, p.36, Penguin UK
topic: Writing, Brass Bands, Doe, Hyde Park, Hyde, Brass