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Androcles and the Lion

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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

One suggested that the beast cut its paw on a Coca-Cola bottle, another thought the lion was a character actor from a traveling troupe of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion.

From Time Magazine Archive

A dash of Shaw is offered in Androcles and the Lion.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is the mood, at any rate, of Androcles and the Lion.

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert