Word: shrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Thurber's forebears were long-lived and the men were men, not the modern shrew-ridden neurosis carriers of the Thurber cartoons. In his 70s, Great-Grandfather Fisher could lift 200 lbs. over his head. When he died at 77, his hair was black and he had "all his own teeth in his head, too-all except one. That'd been knocked out with a brick in a fight." Toward the end, he came to look at a newborn great-grandchild, "a puny boy weighing seven pounds." "Goddam it," he said, "the next generation of Fishers...
Although Shakespeare might turn over in his grave if he could see what happened to his "The Taming of the Shrew." audiences are still enjoying Cole Porter's gay musical after to years of popularity. While it was still a Broadway success, producers Saint Suber and Lemuel Ayers organized a national company of "Kiss Me Kate" and brought it to 54 cities in the United States and Canada. Now this charming bit of fantasy is back in Boston to haunt theater-goers with its hit tunes and exotic settings...
What was basically a hackneyed plot--boy has girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back--is saved by a play within a play. Director John C. Wilson has combined the best scenes from "The Taming of the Shrew" with Porter's music and some exciting choreography by Hanya Holm to make a highly entertaining show. Lemuel Ayers' costumes and settings are not only magnificent but give the production a light pastel touch which keeps it from being the usually garish musical comedy...
Elizabeth Rowan knew how to love. She loved everyone simply for what he was: her husband for a cold, frightened man who dared not risk feeling much for anyone, her sister for a soul-sick shrew who could not control her bad feeling for everyone, her priest for a muddled half-innocent who did not yet know what he really felt about anything except religion. Almost all the people Elizabeth knew dreaded her love as much as they wanted it. Her husband once stormed at her: "I know there are times when it's worse than hating to love...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with Lisa Kirk and Charlton Heston...