Word: pygmalion
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...Page Pygmalion (Carl Henkle, author; Alan Merrill, producer) is an abortive farce about a young sculptor who is in love with his model but wants to marry an heiress. The sculptor's cousin John from Oklahoma City (Robert Emmett Keane) has the bright idea of persuading the model to mount a pedestal and simulate the statue for which she posed. Having heard many things, the model astonishes a large gathering by coming down off her pedestal and announcing that the heiress is. the illegitimate daughter of a janitor. The sculptor gives up sculpting, marries the model, returns to Oklahoma...
...Hollis--"Pygmalion". One of Shaw's best produced by the Theater Guild...
Hollis -- "Pygmalion". Bernard Shaw with the usual finesse of the Theatre Guild production. Nobody seated during the first...
...Pygmalion", the latest production of the Boston Company of the Theatre Guild, Mr. Shaw once again expounds to the world at large wherein it errs and how it might be changed to suit his personal tastes. He is of course amusing, brilliant and didactic, and sometimes all three at once. But in a play so well known it is hardly justifiable to devote much space to its merits and defects. The idiosyncrasies of the author are inevitable and at times even soporific; the question for discussion lies rather in the art of the actors...
...artistic unity of the whole, and such a nice realization that she was there purely for background. So superbly is she unobtrusive, so definitely part of the picture, that one forgets she is the same Lynn Fontanne who was the charming mistress in "Caprice", the flower girl in "Pygmalion", the artist's wife in "The Doctor's Dilemma", and Raina in "Arms...