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To a Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. More letters by G.B.S., this batch directed at an American actress, Molly Tompkins, for whom he tried without much success to provide a Socialist's Guide to Being an Intelligent Woman.
Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once and Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi. Wildcat and The Unsinkable Molly Brown were originals, but pretty bad, leaving top honors again to an import-the...
To a Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. The actress was Mrs. Molly Tompkins, an American, and the letter writer was G.B.S., who strove, without Pygmalion's success, to improve her mind and pronunciation.
To a Young Actress, edited by Peter Tompkins. The actress was Mrs. Molly Tompkins, an American, and the letter writer was G.B.S., who strove, without Pygmalion's success, to improve her mind and pronunciation.
The letters show that Molly Bawn bewitched, bothered, and bewildered Shaw, but they do not wholly show why. He resisted her coquetry, but he could not resist her ignorance, the last temptation of the learned. His mind rushed in to fill that mental vacuum. That is why the Eliza Doolittles...