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...TAMING OF THE SHREW-Shakespeare's noisy comedy brought laughably up to date (TIME...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW-Shakespeare with as many modern improvements as a well-equipped bungalow (TIME...
Soft Living is comedy, cosseted into diversion. Insignificant, happy, it sweeps along relating how pretty Madge Bellamy, shrewd secretary to a shrewd divorce lawyer, marries a millionaire lumberman. While the organist fingers, "O Promise Me," she figures the alimony. Knowing this, the young husband shows his virtuosity as a shrew-tamer. He takes her to a hunting lodge, turns soft living into hard, makes her tote wood, build fires, wash dishes, pose for him, behave herself. At last he drives figures out of the brain of the amateur gold digger. John Mack Brown is the successful husband of this successful...
...believe that by casting 'The Taming of the Shrew' in modern dress, a fresh interest in Shakespeare can be given. This play is now in popular disfavor, although of course in the days of Ellen Terry the people thought it among the best of Shakespearean dramas. By putting an Italian gentleman, Petruccio, in a cowboy outfit and by introducing a modern touch to the lines, the audiences seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW-Showing what can be done with a noisy old farce by dressing it up for cocktails (TIME, Nov. 7)-THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA-George Bernard Shaw handles the medical profession without rubber gloves (TIME...