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...Miss Hayes had left her juvenile parts behind and was at the height of her flapper period. She played Clarence with Alfred Lunt, To the Ladies, We Moderns. High spot of this phase was the title role in Edward Childs Carpenter...
First Lady. Jane Cowl as a Washington woman-behind-the-throne, with brisk dialog by George S. Kaufman & Katharine Dayton. Jumbo. Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Durante, donkeys, deer and "dream women" in Billy Rose's new Hippodrome show. The Taming of the Shrew. Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne add new dimensions to a pleasant comedy by William Shakespeare. Winterset. Maxwrell Anderson's verse tragedy of a city's lower depths...
...releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just at that critical hour the Theatre Guild offered Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Here, in good faith, was a pleasant comedy to bar a thousand harms and lengthen life...
...Lunts' somewhat radical notion that The Shrew needed gaiety and bounce. Accordingly, they have resurrected the possibly anachronistic "Induction," which begins the piece with a troupe of jolly players marching into a nobleman's house with drums and cymbals to beguile him for an evening. In true Elizabethan style, the tale of Petruchio and his truculent bride Katharine is interrupted from time to time while tumblers, a tenor, a troupe of midgets take the stage. Within the play itself, the Lunts have felt free to bring in any amount of extraneous horseplay that might add freshness...
...Shrew's furious scenes last week in Philadelphia, Lynn Fontanne Lunt tore a cartilage in her knee, played the rest of the week with her knee in a tight bandage...