![]() ![]() A few months later, Eliza is a greater success at the season's biggest social event. Her first public appearance at the Ascot horseraces is a dubious success. With Pickering's help, Higgins begins a complete transformation of Eliza. The next day Eliza arrives at Higgins' house, prepared to pay for diction lessons so that she may realize her dream of obtaining a position in a shop. Colonel Pickering, another language enthusiast, quiets the argument, and Higgins boasts to him that after training Eliza for 3 months he could pass her off as a duchess. ![]() Phonetics professor Henry Higgins gets involved in an altercation with Cockney flowergirl Eliza Doolittle as he is taking notes on her speaking accent outside of London's Covent Garden in 1912. ![]()
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