In 1923, a British theater manager told George Bernard Shaw that he wanted to produce the playwright's latest work, a sprawling five-play cycle called "Back to Methuselah." "I asked him was he mad," Shaw said, according to biographer Michael Holroyd. "I demanded further whether he wished his wife and children to die in the workhouse. He replied that he was not married. I began to scent a patron. . . ." …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:56PM on February 21, 2014