In the musical, Professor Henry Higgins insists on teaching Eliza Doolittle how to pass for a “proper lady.” Credit: Jeremy Daniel Six-time Tony Award-winning musical My Fair Lady, which also spawned ...

As racial tensions were rising in 1964, Mary Peabody, the mother of the Massachusetts governor, went to St. Augustine, Fla., to protest segregation. Why A Proper Lady Found Herself Behind Bars This ...