Freddy, Eliza & Furniture
Edwardian larks, railway dreams, and a cad
April 11
‘Pygmalion', Shaw’s popular play, which made an even more popular musical, opened at His Majesty’s on this date in 1914, months before the First World War transformed it instantly into a nostalgic trip back to the Edwardian world of settled order and rank disturbed by the odd eccentric or foreigner.