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Sugar-Coated Pill. Vercors counterpoises Sylva's struggle upward with the sordid decline of Richwick's sometime girl friend into a drug-addicted, sexually perverted mindlessness. After a dash of degradation with her in London, Richwick escapes to come back home as a love-smitten Pygmalion to his Galatea-who turns out to be pregnant...
...Norwalk, Conn. Gracious of manner and restless of mind, thrice-married Ruth Chatterton spent more than a decade as one of Hollywood's leading ladies making such films as Dodsworth and Madame X, then returned to the stage to score solid triumphs in The Constant Wife and Pygmalion, still had enough excess energy to take up flying, write songs, translate plays from the French, serve on committees to aid Israel, and write four books...
...Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. The actress was Mrs. Molly Tompkins, an American, and the letter writer was G.B.S., who strove, without Pygmalion's success, to improve her mind and pronunciation...
...Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. The actress was Mrs. Molly Tompkins, an American, and the letter writer was G.B.S., who strove, without Pygmalion's success, to improve her mind and pronunciation...
...ancient myth Pygmalion breathes life into his statue Galatea through love. It was typical of Bernard Shaw, one of the last of the great 19th century rationalist optimists, that in his Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle into existence. Give Shaw an actress, a breed he regarded as intrinsically brainless, and the sage would begin playing post office, or frequently postcard. Absence definitely made Shaw's heart grow fonder, and for added emotional insurance the women were al ways married, as was he. The two most celebrated of these epistolary romances involved Mrs. Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry...