[after seeing a performance of G.B. Shaw’s “Pygmalion”]. I think that [George Bernard] Shaw deserves one of the highest places among English dramatists. As far as comparing him with that paragon of mortals, the very quintessence of human clay, why it is of course absurd. Shaw has studied life and reduced his observations to pithy and valuable aphorisms. Shakespeare held up the mirror to life itself. Nothing further need be said in comparison. The difference is as great as between sublime genius and clever brilliance. I shall certainly get thru Shaw at the first opportunity.