Margaretta Scott on television); "An Ideal Husband" (1976/1977 Tour) and "Lady Windermere's Fan" (Canada 1979). Her last West End role was with Leo McKern in the revival of "Hobson's Choice" (1984) directed by Frank Hauser.<ref name="http://www.cft.org.uk/1995"></ref> Scott was one of the first women to perform Shakespeare on television, in the role of Beatrice in a stage production of "Much Ado About Nothing" broadcast by the BBC in 1937. In 1946, she portrayed Portia in a made for television production of "The Merchant of Venice". For twenty-five years, from the 1970s, Scott played a number of distinguished parts in popular television dramas. These
Much Apu About Nothing succeeds as a savage satire on the scapegoating of immigrants. Homer has never been so frighteningly dumb, although he does come through with a rousing liberal speech." The episode is "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening's third favorite episode of the show. The episode received a negative review from Dave Foster of DVD Times. He considered "Much Apu About Nothing" to be one of the season's most "tiring" episodes, "mostly because Apu is not a strong enough character to focus an episode on no matter how much writer David Cohen develops him". Foster commented that the episode deals with a political