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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interest in the Sothern-Marlowe production of "The Taming of the Shrew" naturally gravitates towards Miss Marlowe, who, after threatened retirement from the stage, is this fall gratifying New York and Boston with another appearance in Shakespearean repertoire. The qualities which have gained her so many admirers, Miss Marlowe today exhibits as gloriously as in past years. One might charge that Katharina does not kick and stamp, box ears, and throw household furnishings with the vim that one expects of a celebrated virago. Miss Marlowe has, undoubtedly, given us a subdued characterization; when one has felt her subtle power...

Author: By D. F. Mcc. ., | Title: "TAMING OF SHREW" CURE FOR TOO MUCH FEMINISM | 11/6/1919 | See Source »

...Sothern's indomitable Petruchio is a match for twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...

Author: By D. F. Mcc. ., | Title: "TAMING OF SHREW" CURE FOR TOO MUCH FEMINISM | 11/6/1919 | See Source »

...somewhat startling to hear a magnificent woman of Miss Marlowe's mould declaim: "The husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." It might be profitable for young men to acquaint themselves with the strategy of shrew taming as employed by the Elizabethans, and depicted by Mr. Sothern...

Author: By D. F. Mcc. ., | Title: "TAMING OF SHREW" CURE FOR TOO MUCH FEMINISM | 11/6/1919 | See Source »

...course Mr. Sothern did not mind. One small light was snapped on, and the actor continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shakespeare under fire | 10/4/1918 | See Source »

...Sothern or other players like him get little or no salary for working the great Y. M. C. A. circuit in France. Yet there is a large and increasing number of our best known artists who are cheerfully undergoing unusual hardships in order to bring wholesome cheer and amusements to our boys in khaki whereever they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shakespeare under fire | 10/4/1918 | See Source »

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