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...production of "The Taming of the Shrew' in modern dress offers a wonderful chance for experimentation on the stage," declared Ralph Bunker, yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Bunker was formerly instructor in voice technique and public speaking here, and now is playing the part of Winkle in "Pickwick" at the Majestic Theatre...
...Shakespeare's plays," he continued, "The Taming of the Shrew,' with its broad comedy and somewhat coarse wit, should lend itself best to presentation in modern dress. With this alteration, however, the psychology of the actors must completely change, for instead of acting in sweeping gestures and self conscious style which is always necessary in costume plays the players will have to change to the modern style of repression in which their actions must be cloaked behind a carefully cultivated finesse...
...musical comedy again forces its way into the limelight at the expense of the legitimate drama with the announcement made late last night by the Harvard Dramatic Club that "The Taming of the Shrew," its spring production, would be rearranged in order to make an operetta, with a full chorus of eight dancing girls and a male chorus of the same number. Song hits from most of the leading musical comedies on the stage today have been skillfully woven into this remodelling and hardly recognizable comedy of Shakespeare's, and the cast has been slightly altered in order...
...cast of 14 players was announced last night for the Dramatic Club's spring performance,. "The Taming of the Shrew." Kingsley Perry '28, the president of the Dramatic Club, is in the role of Petruchio, and Miss Frances Small Radcliffe '28, playing Katharina, will be the leading actors in the production. They will be assisted by a cast of 12 other experienced actors, four of whom are from Radcliffe. Perry has acted three successive years in Dramatic Club performances, taking leading parts in "Brown of Harvard," and "The Orange Comedy". Miss Small has also played in three performances...
...Taming of the Shrew" will be given at Brattle Hall the evenings...