Word: padua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comedy, but a vivid, hilarious farce. They have paid Shakespeare the double compliment of using hardly a word that he did not write and of brightening his meaning with new pieces of pantomime that are exactly Elizabethan because they are slapstick. They have translated into exquisite physical imagery the Padua which Shakespeare could not manage on the bare boards of his stage. The Taming of the Shrew is Douglas Fairbanks' first all-talking picture and the first picture in which he has ever appeared with Mary Pickford. His lusty voice, individual because it has never been trained, makes the voices...
...birds and an occasional cadaver. But these things it penetrated so shrewdly that the doctor had an idea. It was not, solely, his idea, but rather an astounding improvement on the theories of his teacher, Dr. Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente. This doctor lectured at the school of physic at Padua, Italy, and the inquisitively inclined can still visit the great carved room where Dr. Harvey first heard from Dr. Fabricius of the valves he had discovered in the veins. But Dr. Fabricius was foggy on one point. In common with other great medical minds of his time he believed blood...
Last week the answer came from the other side of the Adriatic. In Rome, Naples, Padua; in Florence, Milan, Turin; in Bologna, Venice, Trieste and in many another city "Down with France!" and "Down with Jugoslavia!" resounded. In Rome 2,000 citizens of profound Fascist faith assembled at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and swore blind devotion to any command of their cherished leader, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
...Padua three Jugoslav students "asked for it" by loudly and arrogantly singing a Jugoslav anthem, to which, it was alleged, they somewhat foolishly added insults to Italy, Fascism, Mussolini, always a dangerous procedure in Italy these days. Only the prompt intervention of the police saved these foolhardy youths from a fate that would not have stopped short of cudgelings and castor...
...manuscript of the second play of Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde came to light, too, last week. The Duchess of Padua, written about 1883 for Mary Anderson (but never acted by her) lay for many years on a printer's shelf in Bloomsbury, London. The printer's son slid it into a nook in his library; forgot about it. Last year the printer's son happened to mention the manuscript to Mitchell Kennerley, President of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. Followed desperate excitement on the part of Mr. Kennerley; a desperate search by the printer...