Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the first of eight Shakespeare plays docketed on Broadway for this season, including Producer Gaige's Macbeth which follows Othello, Leslie Howard in Hamlet, the Lunts in The Taming of the Shrew,* Katharine Cornell again in Romeo & Juliet. Such able actors and their enterprising producers are currently creating something of a Shakespeare revival and proving that senescence is no proper criterion of ability to interpret the Bard that his plays are not only fine literature which can be declaimed with distinction but meaty melodramas which can be acted with vitality. Miss Cornell's glowing performance last...
...impersonated by big-eyed, golden-haired Actress Helen Chandler, Angela Shale is a young woman who looks like an angel out of Heaven, but generally acts like the most mischievous little shrew who ever sat on a ducking stool. By tears, coquetry, wheedling, imprecations, she is bound and determined to make her husband sell his electrical invention to the power trust, accept a steady job and settle down in an all-electric house in the suburbs. Alternately dazzled by his wife's charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit...
...Hell Cat (Columbia), remotely derived from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, concerns a spitfire heiress (Ann Sothern) and a hardboiled newshawk (Robert Armstrong). When the reporter slaps her face, she disguises herself by dyeing her hair, takes a job on his newspaper, maneuvers him out on her father's yacht so she can ridicule him to her friends. Suddenly she decides she loves him. Designed for second grade theatres and double feature programs, The Hell Cat is better entertainment than most Hollywood trivia of its class...
...capacity to transfer literature to the screen without losing its precious essence. But there were real difficulties: Would the public accept a clubfooted hero? What was to be done with a love story involving a young man's revulsion from his baser instincts? How could a hateful shrew of a girl be portrayed by any actress known to Holly wood? As a practical answer to these questions. Of Human Bondage is a good picture taken from a great book...
Tabor was never spoken of as Haw, but as H. A. W. or as Tabor. Mrs. Augusta Tabor was not a shrew, just a sensible hardworking wife; a mother just a little foolish about her only son, Maxy. A business woman successful until in an unguarded moment she backed Maxy, was thrown against the '93 panic and went broke...