Word: dustman
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...jewelry or pretty clothes of any kind. While a Moslem theater in New Delhi not long ago staged a local version of Shaw's Pygmalion, the original My Fair Lady, modern-minded Indians point out bitterly that a Hindu version would be unthinkable: as the daughter of a dustman, Eliza Doolittle would be an Untouchable. Hence Brahmin Henry Higgins' housekeeper would never let her use the same plates and bedding as the rest of the household. And if the high-caste guests at the famous tea party guessed they were socializing with an Untouchable, they would drop their...
...metamorphosis of the cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle. Harrison still talks his songs and sings his dialogue in a triumph of stylized, polished acting that would be memorable with or without music. Another holdover from Broadway is Stanley Holloway, raffishly repeating his role as Eliza's father, a dustman-turned-moralist who speaks some of Shaw's most corrosively funny lines-wisely preserved intact-then stops the show with the gritty low comedy of Lerner's Get Me to the Church on Time...
...given Seattle the best orchestra in its somewhat chaotic music history. A first-rate violist. Katims played in the NBC Symphony under Toscanini for ii years, and studied the Toscanini technique. In rehearsal he is still given to shouting Arturo-isms: "Dream with me!" and "Make it barbaric!" The Dustman. When Katims arrived in Seattle in 1954, the city was still trying to forget its last permanent conductor, France's Manuel Rosenthal, who was for bidden re-entry to the U.S. in 1951 for perjuring himself to the effect that the woman traveling with him was his wife...
...indiscriminately, Madame has smiled benignly from her glass-enclosed niche at No. 19 on a succession of some 32 tenants, at least one of whom (Georges Clemenceau's daughter) remembered her in a will. When not smiling at her tenants, Mme. Muairon impartially turns her beatitude on the dustman, the postman, her husband Arthur, her devoted children Roger and Liliane and the cats Miki and Mikette...
Last week, a new Tory mayor took office in Bebington. As "an act of clemency" to mark the start of a new administration, and with no implication that the dustman's "offense was in any way condoned," he begged for Cooper's reinstatement. The council relented and put Dustman Cooper back to work...