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Peter O’Toole’s Broadway debut last week--as Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion”--has met with decidedly mixed reviews. The Associated Press’ Mary Campbell said the British eccentric “puts his own, most satisfactory stamp on Henry Higgins.” But Frank Rich, the New York Times critic, said that only the first half of the production is diverting, thanks mostly to O’Toole: “The tall, reedy actor rules this ‘Pygmalion’ on the grounds of elegance and talent, if not always concentration.” Howard Kissel of the Daily News said O’Toole is a “properly abrasive” although “rather languid” Higgins.