Word: pygmalion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Androcles and the Lion. 4. Pygmalion...
...these slight novels of his nonage there is little promise of Shaw's latter-day achievements (Candida, Pygmalion, over 40 other plays). Yet, in retrospect, they show horizonal flashes of the approaching storm-the brightest literary lifetime...
Many Happy Returns. Broadway had been the brighter for revivals. The newly organized Theatre, Inc. (which played host to the Old Vic) had started Shaw's Pygmalion on its longest run; and Katharine Cornell had for the fourth time shined up Shaw's Candida. There was a double scoop of Shakespeare, too: Maurice Evans' brisk G.I. Hamlet and an agreeable Winter's Tale...
...Pygmalion. Gertrude Lawrence as G.B.S.'s cockney flower girl who mended her speech as a way to make her fortune (TIME...
Moonlight's People. By the time Pericles became chairman of Athens' general assembly in 460 B.C., the pallid, inanimate population of the Acropolis might almost have been mistaken, by moonlight, for real people. Sculptures like Aphrodite (see cut) made the Pygmalion myth credible...