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...Kiss Me Kate at the South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset, which opened on Monday evening, has the virtue of becoming more palatable as it progresses. Although the early part of the South Shore production lags, once the musical moves into the pseudo-Shakespearean scenes of "The Taming of the Shrew" set to music, all goes well. Much of Cole Porter's best music can be found in this show, and Sam and Bella Spewack, as everyone knows, succeeded admirably in adapting Shakespeare's play into the framework of the musical comedy stage...
...fact, Jerome Alden, who is responsible for arranging the excerpts, seems almost to have gone out of his way to choose parts unsuited to Miss Hayes. The fiery young Katharina in Taming of the Shrew, for example. And that other Katharine, the French Princess of Henry V, whose English is bad --but whose native French, in this instance, is also bad, Miss Hayes insisting on saying le main, with the wrong gender...
Hard by the Firth of Clyde, the 84-year-old Troon course has the teeth of a tiger and the temperament of a capricious shrew. It was at Troon in the 1923 British Open that 21-year-old Gene Sarazen, cocky 1922 U.S. Open champion, teed off into a howling gale sweeping in unannounced from the slate-grey firth, shot a horrendous 85, and caught the next boat home. Even in the sunniest of weather, the championship 7,045-yd. course is a clutching jungle of harsh gorse, spiny Scotch broom and impenetrable whin bushes. Ditchlike burns and sheerfaced bunkers...
...Diego, Calif., the Old Globe Theater: A first-rate Shakespeare company presenting Othello, The Taming of the Shrew and Henry IV, Part...
...Shrew and The Tempest, plus The Gondoliers...