TEACHING HOLLYWOOD
SHAW ON ENGLISH DRAMA. According to Mr Bernard Shaw, the Americans do not know how to put English drama on the screen. He is going to teach them. Asked this week if he would supervise the making of a film of “Pygmalion,” Mr Shaw replied: "From beginning to end every word in the film will be written by me. Not the least regard will be paid to American ideas, except to avoid them as much as possible. “The only concession to America will be the trivial alteration of one or two English words which Americans don't understand, in order that they won't be wasted on them. “ ‘Pram,’ for instance, will be ‘baby carriage’ in the film which goes to America. For ‘Copper's Nark’ I shall give them ‘stool pigeon’ and for ‘toff’ ‘dude.’ That is the . extent of it.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 5
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