Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed Hollingshead called himself a "licensed dealer in legs, short skirts, French adaptations, Shakespeare, taste and musical glasses." In 1886, Hollingshead ceded the management of the theatre to George Edwardes, whom he had hired in 1885. Nellie Farren, as the theatre's "principal boy", and Fred Leslie starred at the Gaiety for over 20 years. In the early 1890s, as burlesque went out of fashion, Edwardes changed the focus of the theatre from musical burlesque to the new genre of Edwardian musical comedy. "Galatea or Pygmalion Re-Versed" is a parody of W.S. Gilbert's blank verse romantic play "Pygmalion and Galatea". "The Morning
Pygmalion and Galatea (1898 film) Galatea to bewilder a drawing instructor; and "Ten Ladies in One Umbrella" (1903), in which a Pygmalion-like Méliès conjures up women in front of a sign labeled "Galathea Theater". The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 156 in its catalogues. It was presumed lost until 1993, when a print was found in an attic in Barcelona. François de la Bretèque described the film as "a metaphor on the image-maker, in other words the film-maker: the one who tries to give life to the simulacra engendered by his imagination". Allison de Fren highlighted the implicit drama