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...lines, the audiences seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage, contained many 'local gags'. All example is the passage in the induction about 'Marian Hocket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot'. Shakespeare, without a doubt, changed 'Wincot' to the name of whatever town he was playing in, and made 'Marian Hocket' some local character. Thus he heightened the farcical element, and this can be best conveyed to an American audience by making it typically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modernized Ophelia Would Lose Charm of Italian Romance Says Fritz Leiber--Shakespeare Always Modern in Thought | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Previous prizewinners have been Marian Nevins MacDowell (wife of the late Edward A. MacDowell) for establishing artist colony at Peterborough, N. H.; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart for educational work in the South Carolina mountains; Miss Sara Graham Mulhali, for work in suppressing traffic in narcotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Engaged. Hamilton Eames, brother of Actress Clare Eames, nephew of famed Mme. Emma Eames de Gogorza, onetime Metropolitan soprano; to Marian Bull, granddaughter of Ainsley Wilcox of Buffalo, in whose house the late Theodore Roosevelt took the President's oath of office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Chorus Girls: Constance Templeton, Marian Isaacs, Sue Birnie, Margaret Cook, Margaret MacGregor, Rhodita Edwards, Maldred Gill, Rosalie Gill, Ruth Seitz, Dorothy Woodbridge, Mary Sands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ANNOUNCES COMPLETE CAST FOR ITS FORTHCOMING PRODUCTION, "THE ORANGE COMEDY" | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...descendant of proud Samurai,f whose ambition vaults not only as high as grand opera but also beyond the roles to which Japanese prima donnas have always been limited in the Occident-Madame Butterfly, Madame Chrysantheme, Lena in La Princesse Jaune. It was to be a Marguerite, a Lady Marian, a Xenia, that Hisa Koike, after studying music at Columbia University, undertook to learn western make-up methods and practiced them even while playing Yum-Yum. Like the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, her present employment has little to do with her case. Critics, having heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Charges | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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