Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...herein concerned with displaying the vagaries of the modern shrew. The curtain ascends on a man and his wife quarrelling at a theatre. The scene slips away to their comfortable Long Island home where she bickers and batters him into revolt. He deserts to the easier confines of debauchery, finally is shot by the shrew. The scene reverts to the theatre. It has all been a play. The shrew is reduced to tearful penitence and they depart, presumably to a life of humdrum harmony...
Heywood Broun: "Nothing more than one of the thousand and one modern versions of The Taming of the Shrew...
...Martin-Harvey, a famous producer and scene designer of England, is presenting during his stay in Boston Greek plays, such as Sophocies "Oedipua Rex". Shakaperian dramas in cluding "Hamlet" and "The Taming of the Shrew", and modern drama such as Maeterlink's "Burgomaster of Stillemonde...
...JOHN MARTIN-HARVEY-Showing that repertory may be both classical and profitable. Hamlet and The Shrew next...
...disillusionment. _ RAIN-A spirited attack on the big stick missionary. Jeanne Eagel is the persecuted, somewhat unevenly virtuous instrument of the Rev. Davison's eventual fall. Realistic rain falls intermittently. SEVENTH HEAVEN-There is a tremendous moment when Helen Menken, as the submissive sister of an absinthe-soaked shrew, turns on her with a courage restored by love, and beats her with her own, whip. LOYALTIES - John Galsworthy's somewhat theatric demonstration that conflicts in loyalties may be disastrous. A wealthy Jew, persecuted by amiable clubmen, wins a doubtful point. KIKI - Aside from holding the Broadway endurance record...