Word: pygmalion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fullest bags of tricks in the business; her white hands are at times just a touch too dramatic. But from Donald Oenslager's faithful Victorian drawing room set to Prossy's champagne jag, this production is all of a piece. It is worth going to see, for Pygmalion is not Mr. Shaw's only triumph...
Sure, vacation is near, but not yet excitingly near. Welles has gone; Hepburn has come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word of it!" Daylight lengthens, but supper is still its deadline. Students eat goldfish, and dog food, and the ice cream record falls...