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Shaw did indeed write all the dialogue for Pygmalion, which was taken verbatim from the stage play except for two new scenes showing Eliza's first bath and her first ball. In doing so, however, he showed his regard for American ideas to the extent of allowing most of Eliza's Cockney dialect in the opening scenes...
...first of the rules that McClellan explained concerned an offensive player's duration of stay in the defensive foul circle. Such a player may stay as long as he wants in the outer half of the foul circle, provided that he is not in possession of the ball. If he has the ball, however, he may only hold it for three seconds...
Much dissension arose among coaches present as to the interpretation of the further ruling that if the player passes through or otherwise spends some time (even without the ball) in the rest of the foul circle or in the free-throw lane, the time he spends there is deducted from his alloted three seconds. This assumes, of course, that he does not leave the foul circle or the free-throw lane before getting the ball...
...more pontifical Literary Magazine. His Great American Bandwagon (1928) is a whimsical review of U. S. eccentricities, from ukuleles to kewpie dolls. Ever one to enjoy making the best of a bad situation, Mr. Merz likes to recall that he met his wife after hitting her with a golf ball...
...Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...