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...Pygmalion. Carolina's benefactor was an Englishman named Robert Wilbraham Fitz Aucher. A vicar's son, Fitz Aucher was a man of great charm and erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent...
...refined and spoke an incomprehensible Neapolitan dialect. She didn't even know how to walk. She had to be educated, taught to walk and not to talk. I redressed her from head to toe and civilized her!" What was Galateri's reward for playing Pygmalion? Muttered he: "She gave me a photograph of herself, signed 'To my great dressmaker...
...rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain," Bernard Shaw has his madeover Liza Doolittle triumphantly recite in his film Pygmalion, thus inadvertently giving modern literature its one memorable line characterizing the equable climate of the Iberian Peninsula. But there was nothing temperate about February's weather in Spain. The cold wave which had paralyzed southern Europe swept down over the Pyrenees and deposited a blanket of frost which chilled to the bone millions of lightly dressed Spaniards living in unheated homes and, far worse, ruined the crops on hundreds of thousands of olive, almond and citrus trees. Hardest...
Centaurs & Bacon. To this day every literate soul in the Western world knows the stories Ovid told, more or less in the way he told them. The titles evoke the tales: Daedalus and I cants, The Story of Pygmalion, Orpheus and Eurydice...
Hungarian-born Perfectionist Pascal rose to fame and fortune with Pygmalion (1938). went on to make a career of producing G.B.S. on the screen (Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion), won the Irish master's rare rating of "genius...