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...Avon is played inside a replica of the famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Flushing-on-Avon | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Directed by an old hand, Alan S. Downer 5G, the Bellboys will present Shakespeare's version of "The Taming of the Shrew" with baritone John S. Weld '39 starring in the female lead of Katarina...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL HONORED | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...such a procedure, his dresser (Eric Blore) agrees, is neatly outlined in one of his early triumphs. The Loving Triangle. But Olivia's adoration thrives on the boorish behavior prescribed by The Loving Triangle, grows to gooey consistency despite insults culled from Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew. When Alone in the City, promising a fate worse than death, fails to quench Idolater de Havilland's ardor, Actress Davis steps in with a sad story suggested by Without Benefit of Marriage, and Olivia returns to the embrace of her suitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Mamfe. He chose it because while it was unsanitary, and disease-ridden, it was nevertheless teeming with the beasts he wanted. Hundreds of specimens collected by the Sanderson expedition had never been bagged before. One of the first animals he encountered was a horrible, smelly little creature named the shrew. It looks like a rat with a long snout and eats anything from snakes to other shrews. Other of Zoologist Sanderson's beasts were no less odd. He captured several varieties of frogs that changed color and one that grew hair. He got into a fight with a herd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: African Treasure | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

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