Word: petruchio
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...Sothern's indomitable Petruchio is a match for twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...
...Watson in "The New Petruchio" tells us the most absurd of yarns in the most charming manner--so that what we too want to know is: "Will it Last...
...plays are "The Merchant of Venice," omitting the last act, and "Katherine and Petruchio," an adaptation by Booth of "The Taming of the Shrew." W. L. Bullock '17 will take the part of Bassanio, and D. L. Kennedy '17 that of Salarino in "The Merchant of Venice"; N. B. Clark '16 will impersonate Tubal in "The Merchant of Venice" and Grumio in "Katherine and Petruchio", while R. Coggeshall '16 will play Biondello in the last-named play...
...performance for the benefit of the Belgian Relief Fund to be given at the Hollis Theater on Thursday, will be at 2 o'clock instead of at 8 as was previously planned. Tickets for this performance, consisting of "The Merchant of Venice," omitting the fifth act, and "Katherine and Petruchio", Edwin Booth's adaptation of "The Taming of the Shrew," may be obtained at the box office of the Hollis Theatre at Herrick...
...Harvard men who will be in the performance are W. L. Bullock '17, as Bassanio and D. L. Kennedy '17 as Salarino, in "The Merchant of Venice"; N. B. Clark '16 as Tubal in "The Merchant of Venice" and Grumio in "Katherine and Petruchio"; and R. Coggeshall '16 as Biondello in "Katherine and Petruchio...