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Raftery and Hilaria were married, with a street woman and a beggar to witness; and Raftery spared the Welshman of his dagger when the cringing misshapen scoundrel would have spread the past like a blight over the newly wed couple. They went out upon the open roads to County Mayo; and when she made her confessional, telling of her eagle heart and her childhood's hard usage, Great Raftery laid aside his harp and caught...
Operas abound in fights of all kinds, and always have. There is a sword-fight in Tristan, a bullfight in Carmen, a dagger-fight in Cavalleria Rusticana, a gunfight in The Girl of the Golden West, a Chinese axe-fight in L'Oracolo, not to mention word-fights of staggering intensity, especially when a prima-donna screams in Italian and a baritone roars his defy in French...
Outside the old site of the American Embassy in Tokyo, an unidentified male, about the age of 40, committed hara-kiri (suicide by disemboweling). With a small dagger he slit his abdomen crosswise and then upward "in the classical way" and slashed his neck. Two letters were found by his corpse, one to "The People of the Japanese Empire," which was not published, but was understood to call upon the nation to rise and avenge the insult of the U. S. Immigration Act; one to "The American Ambassador and the American People...
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...
...Antonio Scotti this is the 25th season. He is probably the most faultless performer on the operatic stage. His impersonation of Scarpia, killed by Tosca's dagger, is one of the peaks of the history of Opera. Today the voice of Scotti is not what it was ten years ago. But the art of Scotti is greater...