[The primary goal of the British was to keep he Turks - allied with the Germans in WWI - from gaining control of the Suez Canal.In an awkward courtship dialogue, Jim tries to make conversation with her.Their simple words to each other reveal both attraction and repulsion, stand-offishness and interest, and juvenile attitudes and peer-pressures:Jim: Hi.""Ouliotta (asking about Fields): Do you think he drinks?Mrs.Hemoglobin: He didn""t get that nose from playing ping-pong.Fields crash-lands at the bottom of the cliff, close o a village in the valley far below.BackgroundMy Fair Lady(1964) was experienced director George Cukor""s film musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw""s 1913 staged playPygmalionthat had played successfully on Broadway from March 15, 1956 to 1962.I didn""t know what I had in mind or what my parents would do when they found me missing.All I wanted was to see you once more, to be near you again, to throw myself at your feet, and cling to you and never leave you." She believes that their name-sake connection spans the distance and will miraculously bring him from Philadelphia to the West Coast:He""ll come for me.