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...Pygmalion overtones. In his iron-roofed big house, Fuller-Sandys, like Henry Higgins, daily gave Margaret lessons in the social graces of the region. Margaret learned to speak and read, slowly mastered the assembly of cutlery for a four-course dinner. For hours, teacher and pupil pored over arithmetic primers, encyclopedias and fashion magazines. One evening Fuller-Sandys gazed at her in a special way; she said yes-and in English. Promptly Fuller-Sandys called on her gnarled father, an aged and respected laborer on the place. Naturally. Fuller-Sandys handed over a bride price ($100); then Fuller-Sandys slipped...
...based frappé is an object lesson in how times change though plots do not. Hope Lange is a chauffeur-chasing heiress who chases Chauffeur Glenn Ford, lures him to a booby-trapped love nest, and almost nabs him. Charles Boyer runs a school for would-be grooms, where Pupil Ricardo Montalban learns that even the aging Boyer is not yet a Casbah Milquetoast...
...student wears the undignified commoner's gown, a jacket of black cloth reaching hardly to the waist. The tutor, however, is dressed in the magnificently flowing black robes of a Master of Arts. This gives a hint of the Oxford notion of the proper relationship between teacher and pupil: the leader is one who knows and the pupil learns from...
...Austen over the vacation? Hasn't he looked at the examination papers, and noticed a regular question on Austen? If the answer to all these questions is no, then all the more reason for the tutor to ask for an essay on Austen--to drive home to his pupil what he is expected to read the following vacation...
Adding just the right whiff of Gallic is indestructible Charles Boyer, a delight to watch as he runs a school for would-be grooms, whose current pupil is Ricardo Montalban, the runner-up in the match for Hope's millions. High point in Boyer's my-fair-laddie crash course: instruction by the master himself in the art of nibbling an arm ("The elbow is a very nice place, and from there it is all good"). Backgrounds of the Grande Corniche are getting to be a grand cliché in movies nowadays, and Ball's scenario...