![]() ![]() ![]() Colonel Pickering, also a linguistic expert, comes to stay with Higgins at his flat. A handsome young aristocrat, Freddy Eynsford-Hill, takes no notice of her when she tries to sell him violets ("Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"). Higgins is out on his endless quest for new dialects of London's speech ("Why Can't The English?"). The first encounter between Professor Henry Higgins, the brilliant, crotchety, middle-aged bachelor who is England's leading phoneticist, and Eliza Doolittle, the little cockney gutter sparrow, takes place near the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, late on a cold March night. ![]()
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