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...Much Ado About Nothing" is by all odds-or most odds anyway-much livelier and much funnier than many of Shakespeare's other comedies, like "The Taming of the Shrew" and "As You Like It," that are produced more frequently. It is surprising that it is so rarely done, and Jane Cowl, riding in on the Harvard Dramatic Club's tailstream, is reported to be readying a production of "Much Ado" for Broadway next season. The play has not appeared in Boston since 1930, when the Stratford-on-Avon players did it and got good notices...
Although no schedule is definite, the Players plan to present "The Women" by Clare Boothe Luce, "Good Theatre" by Christopher Morley, Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," and Shaw's "Candida" in the near future...
Unrelated to the rodent family and far from mouselike in its habits, the shrew is properly an insect eater. But, declared Eadie, the shrew rarely behaves properly: in 56% of shrews' nests he examined there was direct evidence that the occupants had been feeding largely on field mice. "Circumstantial evidence," he added darkly, "points to a higher figure." Field mouse population of meadows near the experiment dropped from 80 to twelve mice per acre...
Unlike the human variety, whose shrill voice it shares, the shrew's bad temper is the result of a too good digestion: So rapid are its metabolic processes that a shrew will starve to death in a matter of hours if it does not keep eating. If two shrews are caged together overnight, only the stronger will be found in the morning...
Because their lives are an unrelenting and insatiable search for food, shrews exist in a perpetual state of nervous tension. So touchy are they that when a fox or a weasel, probably mistaking the rank-smelling shrew for a field mouse, lays a predatory paw on it, the shrew usually expires from shock...