Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noteworthy touch of authenticity was provided by a vintage London taxi especially imported for the show from England, which drove on and off the outdoor set as called for in the script...
...whites smashed bottles, grabbed up sticks and bricks and anything else handy. Said one woman: "They knocked me into a shop doorway, and I felt something sharp cut into my arm. My husband and his friend were on the ground with a pile of colored men on them. A taxi swerved onto the pavement and scattered the blackies. When my husband got up he was holding his back, and I saw there was a knife...
...director of this production, felt, however, that this was not enough, and included some extra-Shavian additions. These, unfortunately, did not come off well. It might, of course, be argued that the gods were against the players. For the first of these flairs was that of a 1928 London taxi (presumably the only one in the U. S. today). This in itself, was not a distraction, but was quite enjoyable. It did, however, create new problems--and here is where the gods came in. In its attempt to carry Eliza Doolittle across the stage, the taxi stalled and left...
...third act, Eliza and her father again carried the humor and action over Kilty's blustering and often clumsy Higgins. Again the applause-getting taxi wrought near-havoc, this time with a late entrance, leaving Eliza and Freddy Eynsford Hill, adequately played by Frederic Warriner, in an overlong and embarrassing embrace...
...Hostile Streets. Along the heavily traveled road from Amman to Jerusalem there are eight police checkpoints. Jordanian passengers in cars and buses are searched to the skin for arms. Almost all the Palestinian refugees (there are half a million in Jordan) are hostile to Hussein's government. Taxi drivers and civil servants, businessmen and doctors (first looking cautiously over their shoulders) admit to being pro-Nasser and anti-Hussein. A government censor scans the Amman newspapers to be sure they contain nothing critical of King Hussein; yet he also smilingly taps a picture of Egypt's Nasser...