Word: petruchio
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...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 and fun to their antic. Thus...
...presents Shakespeare that lacks glamour but makes sense. His Hamlet and Shylock are thoroughly understandable men beset by "equally perceivable woes. His Petruchio is an excruciating shrew-tamer. During his first Manhattan week he also played Macbeth, Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Richard...
...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...