Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Lady. Jane Cowl as a Washington woman-behind-the-throne, with brisk dialog by George S. Kaufman & Katharine Dayton. Jumbo. Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Durante, donkeys, deer and "dream women" in Billy Rose's new Hippodrome show. The Taming of the Shrew. Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne add new dimensions to a pleasant comedy by William Shakespeare. Winterset. Maxwrell Anderson's verse tragedy of a city's lower depths...
...situations. "Pride and Prejudice" opened Wednesday night and received almost unconditional approval from the savants. "A Slight Case of Murder" is approximately slightly amusing. "Squaring The Cricle" is a Soviet comedy which is apparently funnier to Slavs than Americans. The Lunts are circusing through "The Taming of The Shrew" for the Theater Guild and doing a first class job; this should be seen. "Three Men On a Horse" is now showing in Boston and also is reviewed in this issue. "Tobacco Road" as we all know is Erskine Caldwell's dark notes on the South and it begins to look...
...three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just at that critical hour the Theatre Guild offered Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in The Taming of the Shrew. Here, in good faith, was a pleasant comedy to bar a thousand harms and lengthen life...
...Lunts' somewhat radical notion that The Shrew needed gaiety and bounce. Accordingly, they have resurrected the possibly anachronistic "Induction," which begins the piece with a troupe of jolly players marching into a nobleman's house with drums and cymbals to beguile him for an evening. In true Elizabethan style, the tale of Petruchio and his truculent bride Katharine is interrupted from time to time while tumblers, a tenor, a troupe of midgets take the stage. Within the play itself, the Lunts have felt free to bring in any amount of extraneous horseplay that might add freshness...
...Shrew's furious scenes last week in Philadelphia, Lynn Fontanne Lunt tore a cartilage in her knee, played the rest of the week with her knee in a tight bandage...