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When rehearsals for Pygmalion ended at His Majesty's theatre, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Jenny's husband's mistress playing Eliza Doolittle, GBS [George Bernard Shaw] wired Winston, "I am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend, if you have one."
Churchill wired back. "Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second, if there is one.
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William Manchester (The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill [#1]: Visions of Glory, 1874 - 1932)