My Fair Lady (film) at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all the attendant expenses if Higgins succeeds. Higgins agrees, and describes how women ruin lives ("I'm an Ordinary Man"). Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, learns of his daughter's new residence ("With a Little Bit of Luck"). He shows up at Higgins' house three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack
My Lady Molly Moore. It also enjoyed tours and had a brief Broadway run. "My Lady Molly" was the last successful English comic opera in the tradition of Alfred Cellier's "Dorothy" and Arthur Sullivan's "Haddon Hall", as distinguished from the style of the lighter Edwardian musical comedies of the period. A review in "The Daily Mail" stated: ACT I - The Courtyard at Coverdale Arms. "Morning." Act II - The Hall in Coverdale Castle. "Night." Notes My Lady Molly My Lady Molly is a 'comedy opera' in two acts with a libretto by George H. Jessop, with additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank and