SHAKESPEARE
“Slapstick” in Famous Play “TAMING OF THE SHREW” Every country that boasts sound reproducing apparatus, regardless of language, will hear Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in “The Taming of the Shrew,” Shakespeare’s glorious comedy. According to officials of the United Artists’ Corporation, the combination of a Shakespeare play that is known
and studied throughout the civilised world and the international popularity of the two stars is responsible for this decision. “Also,” it is pointed out, “the visual action of this slapstick comedy of a willful maid and go-getter is such that dialogue is an accessory to plot movement.” United Artists are spurred by the popularity which greeted the Moscow Art Theatre, Balieff’s Chauve-Souris and Max Reinhardt’s Repertory Company, and oher organisations successful in presenting foreign language versions of classics in America.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 792, 12 October 1929, Page 27
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132SHAKESPEARE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 792, 12 October 1929, Page 27
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