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...armes, citoyens! Shake off passivity. We must recover some of the aesthetic activism that came into play in the Astor Place Riots of May, 1849, when New York audiences of Shakespeare divided their loyalties between the American actor Edwin Forrest and the British actor William Charles Macready. Forrest gave a crude, robust, vehement interpretation of Macbeth. Macready was more cerebral...
...Feelings ran very high. At Macready's opening performance at the Astor Place Opera House, on May 7, partisans of Forrest threw rotten eggs and potatoes. Does this give you ideas? Think of the ammunition available in a supermarket...
...admit that the Astor Place activism got out of hand. A force of citizen militia was called for Macready's next performance, on May 10. An immense crowd gathered outside the theater, as many as ten thousand people. The militia fired warning shots in the air, and then panicked and fired into the crowd. Twenty-two people were killed and fifty were wounded. That's a fairly large butcher's bill to pay for a dispute over interpretations of Shakespeare...
Social note from the unreal winter of 1939, at the precipice of world war: Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy reported in his London diary that when he dined at Lady Astor's, he noticed that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had a hole in his sock...
CHARDONNAY "Light, fragrant, floral; no oakiness; bright acidity; has a refreshing quality." --John Osborne, head buyer, Astor Wines & Spirits...