AMUSEMENTS
REGENT Leslie Howard’s brilliance as an actor is a proven fact.. As the professor -of phonetics who transforms a little Covent Garden flower-girl into a lovely society lady, he is cast in one of the most perfect roles of his career in the* Gabriel Pascal Production j of Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” which screens finally to-night at the Regent Theatre. With Wendy Hiller as the quaint and lovely object of his phonetic experiment, the professor, first scornful, then intrigued, dictatorial and exultant, succeeds in moulding the whimsically common, yet forthright Cockney waif into a young lady of perfect speech and manners, whose beauty and distinction became the sensation of London society.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12822, 17 August 1939, Page 4
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111AMUSEMENTS Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12822, 17 August 1939, Page 4
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