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...seeing a good play produced as such. If history fails us not, the Elizabethans went in order to see the play. The tendency to go for the aesthetic pleasure of seeing Jno Barry more is but a modern development. Hence, it must be said in all sincerity that Fritz Leiber as Petrnchio, and his accompanying cast in "The Taming of the Shrew" gave us just what we wanted...
...Shakespeare, as it has often been said, was essentially a showman," remarked Fritz Leiber to a CRIMSON interviewer the other day. "I believe that any play of Shakespeare's, even with the small amount of merely suggestive scenery used in his day, could be acted behind a soundproof glass curtain, and the audience would understand it as well or even better than the wordy actionless plays of today, which rely upon witty dialogue for their raison d'etre...
...Castle Square Theatre, whose memory is chiefly famous as erstwhile home of "Abie's Irish Rose," has taken a new lease of life. Now known as the Arlington, the theatre reopened this week with Fritz Leiber billed for a four weeks' appearance in a series of Shakespeare's plays. If his subsequent presentations are on a par with his "Hamlet," in which he is to continue until the middle of the week, Boston Shakespeareans may flatter themselves that they are in for an enjoyable month...
...particularly suited to it. It does not seem, certainly, in his case that anything is lest by foregoing most opportunities for extreme grandiloquence. To those who care more for their Shakespeare than for the accomplishments of the actor and who appreciate the force of judicious simplicity, Fritz Leiber is certain to appeal strongly...
...turn in the hands of their wives, it is the attache's business to handle the wives. Such, at least, is the idea that forms this comedy which probably would seem all right in French, though it was originally written in German (by Rudolph Lothar and Fritz Gottwald), but sounds too broad in English. The tool of France is in this instance played by that notable actor of elegant gentlemen, Basil Rathbone. In an international crisis, he undermines the wife (Mary Nash) of the Spanish minister of war, who, by ardent persuasion, is coaxed into donning red pajamas during...