Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house fronts. These include the Curry household where the wife (Adrianne Allen) is absurdly jealous of her husband (Clive Brook); the Strawn household where middleaged. Kewpie-doll Mazie (Mary Boland) badgers her husband (Charles Ruggles) and her bibulous father-in-law (Charley Grapewin ); the Morrow household where a shrew runs the Temperance Union and cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing...
...lord for himself. His scheme succeeds, and when he delivers his chosen province from the tyranny of The Hawk, brigand in residence there, he finds his career ready & waiting. The Hawk's woman is attractive but untractable, finally seems to yield to Wang the Tiger's shrew-taming blandishments. He marries her, loves her like a war lord, and when he finds she is plotting to betray him, kills her on the spot. This incident gives him a dislike for women; his other wives are taken merely as good investments. As Wang the Tiger's star rises...
...with the Moscow Grand Opera, made gramophone records in England this spring, brings to the U. S. a new Russian work-a suite from music to the comedy The Flea. It will be played at the Stadium along with his own suite from music to The Taming of the Shrew, intended for Max Reinhardt's forthcoming Berlin production...
Kiki (United Artists). With decades in ringlets behind her, Mary Pickford has become a madcap. If she finds madcapping tiring at her age no one can tell from the results except that at times she seems to work a bit too hard at it. In The Taming of the Shrew, she was a madcap in costume, which was an advantage. In Coquette she had an hysterical scene which was widely applauded and made up for her routine madcapping. In Kiki the madcapping consists of losing her panties on the stage, reading other people's letters, using a hatpin...
Many women loved John Wesley, but for a long time he thought celibacy the only state, finally marrying a widowed shrew who brought him four ready-made children and continuous quarrels. Wesley was a missionary to the marrow, but his single attempt on the U. S. (in Georgia) was unsuccessful; England was his proper field. There he traveled 200,000 miles, preached 40,000 sermons, gathered 120,000 followers. "By 1770 whatever else people thought of Wesley, they were bound to think that he was among the most important forces of his time...