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...TAMING OF THE SHREW-Shakespeare...
...President of the Dramatic Club, and has charge of the acting department. During his four years at Harvard, he has acted in every production except "Mr. Paraclete". He has had leading roles in "The Moon is a Cong", "Brown of Harvard", "The Orange Comedy," and "The Taming of the Shrew." Leatherbee has played in "Brown of Harvard", "The Orange Comedy", and "The Taming of the Shrew...
...precedent this year by running its play in Cambridge on four consecutive nights. There has formerly been a break of one evening in the Brattle Hall performances, but the inability of the club last spring to meet the demand for tickets for its presentation of "The Taming of the Shrew" in modern dress has warranted the new policy...
...thesis is engrossing in a faintly inhibited fashion. "Gentleman worship" is a cult most of the U.S. envies, tries to copy, fails perhaps to understand. For almost any U.S. actor, the part would have been impossible; for Mr. Howard it is a goal unerringly achieved. The Taming of the Shrew develops into a pretty feeble farce along toward the latter half, but up to that time, perhaps unto the end, a normal U. S. citizen will enjoy this version of it more than any other he has ever seen. The piece is played in the trimmest of modern clothes...
...will upon Katharine one can well believe in his ultimate triumph. Virginia Bronson's Katharine is quite on a par with Petruchio, and rages about quite as she is expected to. In all truthfulness must be said that it is as the violent Kate and not as the tamed Shrew that Miss Bronson is at her very best: Acts I and II do her more credit than the two succeding ones. Louis Leon Hall as Christophus Sly in the Induction and later as Hortensio gives an excellent performance. His portrayal of the considerably inebriated Sly is amusing to a high...