Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair Lady is not all Rex Harrison. Producer Herman Levin has outfitted it sumptuously with Cecil Beaton costumes and Oliver Smith sets, had Hanya Holm contrive romping dances under Covent Garden's soaring arches. Stanley Holloway, a hook-nosed veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation...
...said much the same thing. Shaw, always a canny man with a shilling, would have appreciated more vividly the coarser tribute of the money that is pouring into Lady's clinking till. Tickets are almost impossible to get; scalpers demand as much as $50 for choice seats. Overall, Fair Lady's producers expect to gross some $5,000,000 (including $5,000 a week for Harrison) on their $401,000 production, and the Columbia LP record of the songs should gross at least another...
...Fair Lady Professor Higgins asks, "Why can't a woman be more like...
...part not so much for his resemblance to Higgins as for his charm on the boards. A boulder of a word, reduced to pebble-size by too much fingering, "charm" comes from the Latin for incantation and implies the use of magic. No one who has seen Fair Lady denies that Rex exerts a sort of magic-who else could growl: "Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?" and make it a moving proposal of marriage-but few can agree on just where it lies...
...says Moss Hart, who directed Fair Lady, "is that he's not a frivolous man. He's an actory actor, the least frivolous actor I've ever worked with and the most industrious. What he gets he gets from digging, digging, digging. Once I discovered this, I could forgive him a good deal. There were tremendous rages and stalkings-off during rehearsals...