Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radical notion that The Shrew needed gaiety and bounce. Accordingly, they have resurrected the possibly anachronistic "Induction," which begins the piece with a troupe of jolly players marching into a nobleman's house with drums and cymbals to beguile him for an evening. In true Elizabethan style, the tale of Petruchio and his truculent bride Katharine is interrupted from time to time while tumblers, a tenor, a troupe of midgets take the stage. Within the play itself, the Lunts have felt free to bring in any amount of extraneous horseplay that might add freshness and fun to their antic...
...Denver contingent got off to a bad start when its treasurer, rich young Broker Charles Boettcher II (kidnapped in 1933 by Napper Verne Sankeyj turned up in St. Louis with the tale that he had lost in transit the $100,000 certified check which was to have cinched his city's bid. This yarn fizzled when the folk back home revealed that the check was for only $26,650, that it was never lost, that the episode was "a joke which somebody took seriously." More creditable was Denver's stunt of exporting a bevy of beauties to distribute...
Adapted from Humphrey Cobb's recent best-selling novel (TIME, June 3) about a reputedly authentic incident on the French front in 1915, it looks at war from a more intimate and shocking angle than Dr. Holmes's dreamy drama. The tale has to do with a gallant regiment of the line which is called upon by a sadistic, medal-hungry general to take a heavily fortified German hill, "The Pimple " after two previous attacks have failed'. The regiment is cut to pieces before it gets through its own wire. The general goes into a psychopathic rage...
Remember the Day (by Philo Higley & Philip Dunning; Philip Dunning, producer) is a fragile, Tarkingtonian tale of the pangs of childhood, in which are to be seen the growing or just-grown offspring of some notable stage folk. The cast includes the late William Hodge's daughter Martha, Ed Wynn's son Keenan, Author-Producer Dunning's daughter Virginia, Moffat Johnston's son Peter and John Drew Devereaux (grandson). Mr. Dunning has had a sign placed over the stage door: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Unspoiled Children in the World...
Bless his soul, the Vagabond could not help taking that little fairy tale from Heine. It is the Age of Romanticism. And the Vagabond feels his kindred spirits. It is a poetic Germany welcoming back all that is spontaneous and imaginative in literature. It is a time when the Vagabond could indulge all his spiritual instincts; even the wildest and most wayward. And the Vagabond is happy; happy with the good earth which a few years before this age was all the devil...