PYGMALION

Caedar and Cleopatra have been driven clean out of my head by a play I want to write fot them in which he shall bell a west-end gentleman and she an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers.<br /> The first London performance of Pygmalion took place in 1914: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Mrs Patrick Campbell took the leading roles. From the outset in proved a sensational sucess, although Shaw, irritated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions, dismissed it as a potboiler.