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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...
...Great Lady" Miss Terris plays the part of Eliza Bowen, a tavern wench who wishes to become a "great lady." To achieve her object she goes to extremes in securing the aid of a ship's captain, two husbands, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Louis XVIII...
Norma Terris, playing the tavern girl, owns the show by virtue of her singing and her extremely attractive manner in the part. This wench of low estate, nee Eliza Bowen of Providence, Rhode Island, believes a woman can achieve anything she wishes if only she marry the right man. Successively she become an actress, the wife of a prominent American merchant, Stephan Jumel, and finally Mrs. Aaron Burr; throughout all this she keeps a rabid fan of Napoleon on her mind and in her heart...
Aside from his calamitous reduction of Paraguay's man power. Dictator Lopez' great claim to distinction was his love for Eliza Alicia Lynch. Eliza was a needle-witted Irish girl of uncertain background who became his mistress in Paris, bore him four sons, and was charged by his enemies with having egged him on to his worst atrocities. Although Author Barrett works hard to make her a glamorous figure, he seems to be fighting against odds almost as great as those that destroyed Lopez. To her credit he emphasizes that she was devoted to the dictator, followed...
Back came Mr. Dubinsky: "Eliza crossing the ice may not have had a very pleasant journey but, as I recall, she had to make that trip getting away from a none-too-kind overseer...