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Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Featuring the Dublin Players in a scene from Shaw's Pygmalion...
...imposition of an admissions screening process on the Liot House--but none of the implications of its humor are left to the reader's imagination. "Macavitys Rat" picks up the old theme of extra-talented experimental animals and leaves it rather the worse for wear. Two men collaborated on Pygmalion, Mark III," thus making it twice as long and half as funny as it should have been...
...fellow with a North Country accent, who couldn't find his hat because he was sitting on it." But when Laughton began to recite, he ceased to be a figure of fun: he held the room spellbound. For his portrayal of Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion, he won the academy's highest award. Shaw dropped in on one rehearsal and commented: "Young man, you were horrible as my Higgins, but nothing will stop you from getting to the top of the tree in a year...
...Pygmalion and The Lady's Not For Burning...
This posed a stickler for Shaw's trusted friend, Producer Gabriel (Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra) Pascal, who had to stretch the two-acter, Androcles and the Lion, to feature length. Pascal finally wangled a grudging O.K. from the trustees of Shaw's estate to raise the alteration rate to 25%, and fattened up the script with lines borrowed from Shaw's own preface. With the biggest barrier hurdled, Androcles was only two weeks behind schedule at RKO last week...