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In the ancient myth Pygmalion breathes life into his statue Galatea through love. It was typical of Bernard Shaw, one of the last of the great 19th century rationalist optimists, that in his Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle into existence. Give Shaw an actress, a breed he regarded...
Were or Hwen. Young Molly and her husband Laurence arrived in England as Shavian cultists. Laurence, a would-be architect, wanted to build a theater shrine; Molly, a would-be actress, wanted to play Shaw heroines. Though Shaw was not immune to Molly's shapely figure and "eyes like...
Cure for the Learned. The trouble with Molly was that she feared nothing, especially her own limitations, and liked to indulge in the vocational therapy of the rich-changing vocations. She dropped acting for painting, painting for playwriting. G.B.S. steadily urged her to be a disciplined pro, but her game...
Her most poignant self-deceit was in expecting a closer liaison with Shaw. He incessantly reminded her of the age difference. When G.B.S. was 90 and his wife Charlotte had died, the unteachable Molly proposed to live with him, and Shaw was scandalized: "The degradation to Literature, the insult to...
Molly Bawn