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Only in The Great Gatsby did Scott reconcile the idealism of American culture with its materialism. In these later stories, the fairytales die hard. "Jacob's Ladder," a Pygmalion story and one of the most tender in the book, tells of a rich, rather bored man who makes the sister of a murderess a film star. She offers him her affection but he rejects it until, separated by her success, he wants her; by then, of course, it is too late...
...waning of their powers made the manipulation more threatening because it was unpredictable. For much of the piece, the "hero," an Adam figure, is carried frozen about the stage. A woman, the ordering spirit of the whirling white chaos, tries to activate this statue, in a reversal of the Pygmalion-Galatea myth of artistic creation. Her attemps to infuse him with life are frustrated by the score, the other dancers, all the externals. Only in a brief moment of silence, when the score ceases to beat messages, the dancers stop gyrating, do the two find each other and come together...
Grand Illusion, 4, 8; Rules of the Game, 6, 10, Friday and Saturday; Summertime, 4:15, 7:40, 11:10, Pygmalion...
...Earrings of Madame De..., 4, 7:30, 10:55, and Letter From an Unknown Woman, 5:55, 9:20, tonight; Woman in Love, 5:25, 9:10, and Ecstasy, 4, 7:45, Friday and Saturday; Summertime, 5:40, 9:05, and Pygmalion, 4:05, 7:25, 10:50, Sunday through Tuesday...
With his ninth beer, the gallant and the Pygmalion was coming out in Nick. The young girl with the woman truck driver was her daughter, 27 years old and unsure of herself, said Nick. As he explained it, "she needs a lot of help getting out of herself. I don't know who'd have the time...