Taming of the shrew

Folger bibliographic ID: 353282
Folger call number: Sh.Misc. 2347
Folger holdings ID: 501715
Accession Number: 270688

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")

General notes

"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

Item information about Folger Sh.Misc. 2347

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

Alternate titles: Wellington Talkies : where talkies reach perfection

Taming of the shrew (Motion picture : 1929) Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979 Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939

subject: Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979
subject: Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939
issuing body: Wellington Talkies (Mumbai, India)