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...honest and upright citizen, with no police record and with no axe to grind at some other man's expense, you would be a perfectly legitimate exhibit here alongside our upright apes and bounding baboons from the African outdoors. But it will not do to install you here, as your presence would be denounced as a reproach to the majority of the proletariat and an insult to predatory...
Brains dashed out by an axe wielded by a son of one of the victims...
...sent to Stavropol, Ciscaucasia, to investigate the execution of hundreds of peasants by the Cheka, former secret political police, for resisting tax-collectors. Davidov was just leaving a meeting in the local Soviet, after endorsing the Cheka's policy, when his brains were dashed out by an axe wielded by the son of one of the Cheka's victims...
...politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics, the "Teapot Dome" has long since lost its news value...
Clare Fames is an admirable foil as Lady Macbeth, sharp and thrusting as a dagger against Hackett's tremendous battle-axe personality. Moffat Johnston (as Macduff) and the supporting company are well chosen. The massive settings suit this dreadnought production. Hackett has even arranged appropriate incidental music to show his complete mastery of the play...