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Augustus Does His Bit - A True-To-Life Farce - By George Bernard Shaw - Augustus Does His Bit, A True to Life Farce (1916) is a comic one-act play by George Bernard Shaw about a dim-witted aristocrat who is outwitted by a female spy during World War I. I wish to express my gratitude for certain good offices which Augustus secured for me in January, 1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander-in-Chief: an invitation which was, under the circumstances, a summons to duty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuring the necessary passport and other official facilities for my journey. It happened just then that the Stage Society gave a performance of this little play. It opened the heart of every official to me. I have always been treated with distinguished consideration in my contracts with bureaucracy during the war; but on this occasion I found myself persona grata in the highest degree. There was only one word when the formalities were disposed of; and that was "We are up against Augustus all day." The showing-up of Augustus scandalized one or two innocent and patriotic critics who regarded the prowess of the British army as inextricably bound up with Highcastle prestige. But our Government departments knew better: their problem was how to win the war with Augustus on their backs, well-meaning, brave, patriotic, but obstructively fussy, self-important, imbecile, and disastrous. Save for the satisfaction of being able to laugh at Augustus in the theatre, nothing, as far as I know, came of my dramatic reduction of him to absurdity. Generals, admirals, Prime Ministers and Controllers, not to mention Emperors, Kaisers and Tsars, were scrapped remorselessly at home and abroad, for their sins or services, as the case might be. But Augustus stood like the Eddystone in a storm, and stands so to this day. He gave us his word that he was indispensable and we took it. Browse By Author: S - Project Gutenberg Saar Ferdinand von Smtliche Werke 9: Novellen aus sterreich III Leutnant Burda / Seligmann Hirsch / Die Troglodytin / Ginevra / Geschichte eines Wienerkindes ... Browse By Title: A - Project Gutenberg Aamun miehi: Historiallinen kuvaelma (Finnish) by Wilkuna Kysti. Aan de kust van Malabar De Aarde en haar Volken 1909 (Dutch) by Deschamps mile Quotations from George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950] Stimulating quotations from the playwright & critic George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950] who was born in Ireland and lived in Britain from the age of twenty. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce of the lipoleums Toffeethief that spy on the Willingdone from his big white harse the Capeinhope. Stonewall Willingdone
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