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Title
Taming of the shrew.
Uniform title
Promotional material for (work): Taming of the shrew (Motion picture : 1929)
Variant title
At head of title: Wellington Talkies : where talkies reach perfection
Published
[Mumbai, India?] : [Wellington Talkies], 1930.
Description
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 cm
Associated name
Promotional material for film adaptation of (work): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Taming of the shrew.
Wellington Talkies (Mumbai, India), issuing body.
Wellington Talkies (Mumbai, India), issuing body.
Summary
Advertisement for a run of the 1929 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the shrew, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, at the Wellington Talkies. On the verso, the beginning of the film is summarized (with the note "Rest on the screen").
Note
"From Saturday 29th November 1930."
This is likely the "Wellington Talkies" located in the Dhobi Talao (Dhobitalao) neighborhood of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The theater, which was also known as the Wellington Cinema, showed "Taming of the Shrew" in late November and early December 1930, according to advertisements in the Times of India. Other cinemas also called the Wellington Talkies existed in Chennai (formerly Madras) and Lahore, Pakistan.
This is likely the "Wellington Talkies" located in the Dhobi Talao (Dhobitalao) neighborhood of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The theater, which was also known as the Wellington Cinema, showed "Taming of the Shrew" in late November and early December 1930, according to advertisements in the Times of India. Other cinemas also called the Wellington Talkies existed in Chennai (formerly Madras) and Lahore, Pakistan.
Condition
small chip in left margin
Geographic name
Mumbai (India), event place.
Place of creation/publication
India -- Mumbai, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
Sh.Misc. 2347
Folger-specific note
Printed in blue. Acquired from Walter Reuben, 2017-11-06. Adopted by Caroline Kenney, to my brothers from their shrew of a sister, Acquisitions Night 2019.
Folger accession
270688