He. "I say, your Grannie seems rather put out to-night. What's up?"
She. "Hush! Poor dear, she's just heard my other grannie is engaged and she's so afraid she may be left on the shelf."
AT THE PLAY.
"Pygmalion."
The original Pygmalion took a block of dead ivory and made of it so fair a figure of a woman that he fell in love with his own creation, and Aphrodite, at his request, brought it to life. Mr. Shaw's Pygmalion takes a live flower-girl, turns her into a lifeless wax figure fit for a milliner's shop-window, and flatters himself, as an artist, on the result, but, as a man, proposes to take no interest in it, moral or physical. So you can easily see why almost any other proper name you can think of would have done better for the title.
We venture to suggest a new attitude to illustrate the ease of manner which one expects from a Master of Phonetics and Deportment.
Henry Higgins Sir Herbert Tree.