Word: petruchio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 of the schooled actors who play with him seem prosy and lifeless. He has a fine time swaggering in Petruchio's pointed shoes, but his wife outplays him. She proved in Coquette that in spite of 20 years in silent stories she could talk a difficult emotional role better than most contemporary stage actresses. Now she is Katherine from head to heels?a stormy, pretty vixen with just a shadow...
...this way Petruchio, Katharine, Grumio, Hortensio, and the rest become more human than ever. Mr. Leiber as Petruchio is perfect. He carries the necessary bragadaccio to just the proper point, and as he strides about horse-whip in hand inflicting his will upon Katharine one can well believe in his ultimate triumph. Virginia Bronson's Katharine is quite on a par with Petruchio, and rages about quite as she is expected to. In all truthfulness must be said that it is as the violent Kate and not as the tamed Shrew that Miss Bronson is at her very best: Acts...
...Petruchio made up as a cowboy, with leather chaps and cerise shift, sporting a long cattle whip, starts his tactics of taming the shrewish Katherina, by twining the whip about the shoulders of the screaming flapper, as he sings...
...leading roles will be played by K. A. Perry '28 and Frances Small, who will play Petruchio and Katharina respectively. Miss Small has had previous experience in the Harvard Dramatic Club as well as being the newly elected president of the Radcliffe Idler Club. K. A. Perry, who is the president of the Dramatic Club, has played leading roles in "Brown of Harvard," and "The Orange Comedy." G. B. Bingham '28 who is playing the part of Grumio and H. W. B. Donegan E.T.C. in the role of Lucentio, will have solo part and Donegan has already had experience...
...Richard Bennett '28, J. K. Barre '30, Henry Fox '28, Thomas Galt '30, Charles Tatham '28, R. C. Carpenter '29, Abbot Peterson '30, Paul Sherbert '30. Baptista, Charles Leatherbee '29 Vincentio, D. W. Moreland '28 Lucentio, H. W. B. Donegan E.T.S. Petruchio, K. A. Perry '28 Hortensio, A. S. Gerstein '30 Tranio, Adele Wood Biondelo, Charles Hicks ocC. Grumio, G. B. Bingham '28 A Pedant, G. W. Harrington '27 Katharina Frances Small Bianca, Mary Caperton Widow, Corlies Wilber Curtis, Margaret Effinger Specialty Dancers, Sara Sherburne Ogden Goelet '29 Servants, Margaret Child Judy Brown Lydia Edwards Tailor, Abbott Peterson '30 Haberdasher...