Word: pygmalion
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...Pygmalion Treatment. To his mounting horror, Sir Percy learns that Lady L. was born Annette Boudin, the daughter of a Paris washerwoman. In due course, like most of the girls of her street, she became a prostitute. But she was beautiful, and soon the top banana of French anarchists. Armand Denis, gave her the Pygmalion treatment. He made a lady of her so that she could play with the very rich and arrange burglaries to finance Armand's assassination plans for the good of humanity...
...Fair Lady. Bernard Shaw, once a bone-crushing music critic, might just possibly have approved this musicomedy masterpiece fashioned from his Pygmalion...
...Fair Lady. Bernard Shaw, once a bone-crushing music critic, might just possibly have approved this musicomedy masterpiece fashioned from his Pygmalion...
...landmark for Londoners (including Irish Immigrant George Bernard Shaw) was the flower stall on the Strand commanded by Mrs. Winifred Naomi Wilson. Last week the will of "Cockney Kitty" Wilson (who died in August at 77) was published, revealed that the prototype of the bedraggled Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady had left an estate...
Because I found this article so interesting, I thought it worth while pointing out one inaccuracy in it, which I am sure you too would wish to correct. Mr. Titcomb rightly comments upon the theatrical "coup" of obtaining the rights to Shaw's Pygmalion, but incorrectly assigns the credit for so doing to Mr. Jerome Kilty. Mr. Kilty, as local audiences well know, is an extremely talented and valuable member of our company, but it was Group 20's Managing-Director, Miss Alison Ridley, who was entirely responsible for obtaining the rights to the play, after six months of work...