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Androcles and the Lion

American  

noun

  1. a comedy (1913) by G. B. Shaw.


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Born in Kuala Lumpur, Gough started his career in the 1946 television movie Androcles and the Lion.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2011

In that year he met G.B.S., played in Shaw's Androcles and the Lion and The Doctor's Dilemma.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has two TV specials coming up the same week next month�as host of NBC's high-rating annual Ice Follies show and as Ferrovius in a Richard Rodgers musical adaptation of Androcles and the Lion.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pitoeff company playing at the Comedie Champs Elysees, in The Lower Depths, Androcles and the Lion and others, are almost always interesting.

From Time Magazine Archive

A couple, like "Androcles and the Lion" and "Day Dreaming," owe a similar spread to literary communication even though in the latter case it is the popular literature of the Arabian Nights.

From Europa's Fairy Book by Batten, John Dickson

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