Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following pre-review of "The Taming of the Shrew" was written especially for the Crimson by Ralph Bunker '10, formerly instructor in Voice Technique and Public Speaking at Harvard, and now playing the part of Winkle in "Pickwick" at the Majestic Theatre in Boston. While at Harvard Mr. Bunker acted in the Dramatic Club, the Hasty Pudding Club, and the Pi Eta Club productions...
...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...
...Taming of the Shrew" will be given at Brattle Hall the evenings...