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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...
...Broadway last week, theatergoers were still flocking to Kiss Me, Kate, the musicomedy hit based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. In the hinterland, to woo theatergoers to her touring production of The Taming of the Shrew, Margaret Webster was billing the old comedy with a new subtitle: "The Original Kiss Me, Kate...
Whatever the ancient Greeks may have thought, life among the gods up there on Olympus wasn't always a bowl of nectar. Take the case of Venus, or let Author Erskine take it. Her mother-in-law Juno was a suspicious, embittered shrew. Sister-in-law Minerva, an athletic type, tried to knife her as soon as her back was turned...
Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris of The Browning Version is not just grey from pedagogical dust, but is black and withered with failure. Disliked by his pupils, disdained by the headmaster, he is endlessly tortured by his snob and shrew and slut of a wife, who makes him the confidant as well as the victim of her infidelities. When a pupil suddenly floods him with happiness by bringing him a present, his wife promptly points out that the gift is doubtless really a bribe. At the end, thanks to the prodding of his wife's rebellious lover, Crocker-Harris shows...