Word: eynsford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into high society. In this Miss Harris was perfect. Her conversation and accent, a mixture of her own flower-girl experience and the teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch to the hilt. Higgins' colleague, Pickering, was adroitly played by Robert Blackburn...
...third act, Eliza and her father again carried the humor and action over Kilty's blustering and often clumsy Higgins. Again the applause-getting taxi wrought near-havoc, this time with a late entrance, leaving Eliza and Freddy Eynsford Hill, adequately played by Frederic Warriner, in an overlong and embarrassing embrace...