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...King's Conscience. Although he did not augment his income with bribes, as so many judges then did, he had enough to live more than comfortably. Some evidence suggests that the marriage to Alice (his second) was not wholly satisfactory (in a poem he refers to her as a shrew); but, all in all, Sir Thomas appears to have been as happy in his family as most men hope...
...story eminently suited to any pair with a theatrical flair, as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne showed when they caroused through the play on Broadway in 1940. For this film version of Shrew, the Burtons-who only recently finished shrewing their way through the movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-are being put through their paces by Franco Zeffirelli, the irreverent Italian director who once did a modern-dress Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story...
...some of the hanky-panky that made such eyepopping headlines when Cleopatra was in the making. But not so. This time the Burtons were working. In Rome last week the two were filming a story that William Shakespeare wrote expressly for them some years back: The Taming of the Shrew...
...audiences could, and they liked the blooming English beauty. The hair is russet and gold, the body big but underweight, angular and appealing. What audiences liked critics loved. Her Rosalind in As You Like It was called "the best in history," her Katharine in The Taming of the Shrew "fiery, lovely, right and true...
What a night at the Burtons! Charlie Brown, the beloved Abyssinian cat of Elizabeth Taylor, 34, had slipped outdoors and got lost on the grounds of the rented villa in Rome where Liz, Dick and the menagerie are staying while they shoot The Taming of the Shrew. Next morning at 5, Charlie Brown awakened the family with anguished meowing from the top of a fir tree, and out trooped Liz, Dick and butler to the rescue. The butler bravely ascended the fir, but when he started down with Charlie, the cat squirmed loose, plummeting onto Liz's head...