"TAMING OF THE SHSEW."
FAST-MOVING COMEDY. When a beautiful girl counters a legitimate proposal of marriage tendered by a handsome young man with .such a statement as: “I’ll see thee hanged,” things are bound to happen. And happen they do in “Taming of the Shrew” which commences a season at the Regent Theatre to-day, and likewise brings Mary. Piekford and Douglas Fairbanks to the screen together for the first time. From the openingshot to the final fadeout, “Taming of the Shrew’ ’is just one long, glorious laugh. From the first moment gay but stubborn Petruehio (Douglas Fairbanks) lays eyes upon his bride-to-be, tiie stormy, tempestuous Katherine (Mary Piekford) there ensues a battle of wits and wills. Loving her fiery temper, and intrigued by her defiant remark: “I’ll see thee hanged!” Petruehio sets about unceremoniously to tame the Shrew. To make things more complicated, he employs the very tatics that have won her the cognomen of “wildcat” throughout all of Italy. How she resists, and how the ultimate solution is worked out could .only -be told by JShakespejare. The king and queen of the movies appear together for the first time in the cyclonic love story of Katherine the Shrew and Petruehio the .Shrewd. As co-stars in this tempestuous courtship of the two maddest love-makers ever known Mary and Doug will keep you doubled up with laughter from start to finish.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1931, Page 3
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