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GREAT LAKES SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Lakewood, Ohio): The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado, Henry VI, Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

Next, Billy embroils himself in simultaneous engagements with two horrid girls who hold no appeal for him. Prissy Barbara, a vacuous townie whose jaw drops when he puts his hand on her knee, and Rita, a shrew with large breasts and a gelding tongue, are constantly on the point of finding Billy out. Hopping in frantic secrecy between these charmers keeps his nights occupied--but offers no more satisfaction than his job, or bumbling duplicities...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Billy Liar | 2/19/1964 | See Source »

Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter's musical melding of bard and bawd, with Marguerite Piazza as the tamed shrew. Wallingford, Conn.; Framingham. Mass.; Warwick, R.I.; North Tonawanda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 5, 1963 | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...Tamable Shrew. With the ruefulness implicit in her title, but also with honesty and a bitchy bonhomie that seldom adorn such Sunset sagas, Bette Davis, now 54, pictures herself as Mother Goddam, a tamable shrew who never found her Petruchio. Her four marriages suffered inevitably from income-patibility. In 1946, Bette Davis earned more ($328,000) than any other woman in the U.S.; one ex-husband, clearing out with the pretty nursemaid, even sued for alimony. Says she: "The only future marriage I would even remotely consider would be with Paul Getty." But she admits that her own rapturous intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother Goddam | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...Diego, Calif., Old Globe Theater: Henry IV, Part 2, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew, in rotation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Aug. 10, 1962 | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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