Word: pygmalion
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...Graham Gallery there are two, fully dressed and both looking singularly exhausted, possibly from the presence of so much female flesh. He has even been known to sculpt a cat (Rex Harrison has that). But he really considers himself "a female worshiper," and looks forward to playing Pygmalion to the first automated Galatea...
...Seven Aspects of Shaw," Part 1. Ac tress-Director-Producer Margaret Webster examines the many facets of G.B.S., read ing excerpts from his Man and Superman, Candida, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Pygmalion. Repeat...
However, there is evidence that O'Hara shares the critics' dissatisfaction with his creatures-a circumstance that may explain his touchiness. At all events, in his latest novel O'Hara may again be seen at work like a frustrated Pygmalion, infuriated because the being he has articulated with such skill and wired for authentic speech is somehow, after all, not quite human...
CAESAR & CLEOPATRA (Caedmon) is more than a little like Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. For the tyrannical pedant of phonetics, Henry Higgins, Shaw substitutes the philosopher-king of Rome. In place of the forlorn flower girl who must be passed off as a lady, the play offers an adolescent Egyptian minx who must be tutored in regality. The playwright's purposes are somewhat thwarted by this recording. Max Adrian is little better than a fashionably tailored verbal dandy, and an overagitated Claire Bloom is more often short of breath than breathless...
...each village and perform the most menial tasks, like gathering night soil for the fields. In many areas their womenfolk are forbidden to wear jewelry or pretty clothes of any kind. While a Moslem theater in New Delhi not long ago staged a local version of Shaw's Pygmalion, the original My Fair Lady, modern-minded Indians point out bitterly that a Hindu version would be unthinkable: as the daughter of a dustman, Eliza Doolittle would be an Untouchable. Hence Brahmin Henry Higgins' housekeeper would never let her use the same plates and bedding as the rest...