Tag: epistolary drama

Front facade of Houghton Library

Auspicious Debuts: Dear Liar

On July 31, 1957, a thin crowd at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium in Cambridge, Mass. listened as Jerome Kilty (Harvard ’41) and Cavada Humphrey read—or pretended to read—from the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw, “the well-known vegetarian,” and famed English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Campbell.   Perhaps some day, if you are very good and behave properly…