Word: shrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hall of Fame (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). The Taming of the Shrew, with Maurice Evans, Lilli Palmer, Diane Cilento...
...Taming of the Shrew by you-know-who is the whoop-dee-doo on channel 4 but not 2. Sunday...
Last week Prawy at last was ready-and old Vienna got its first American musicomedy. Before the opening, Vienna's Arbeiterzeitung ran an article protesting "Don't Kiss Me, Kate," and the experts agreed that poor Katharine the Shrew was certain to fall on her face...
...plot concerns an aging wolf who manages to marry his nephew's intended. Once the marriage contract is signed, the sweet little bride turns into an extravagant shrew, and the poor fellow finds himself so hopelessly outmaneuvered that he is delighted to give the girl back to his nephew. The Met cast mercifully played everything in low key rather than for low comedy...
...been so good, they would have been engulfed by the secondary players. The most outstanding in this group was Victor Altshul as Sergeant Meryll, whose hearty lustiness dominated almost every scene that he was in. His second act duet with Marietta Perl, who made the most of "shrew" part as Dame Carruthers despite a little difficulty with her voice range, was the high point of the show from the comic standpoint...