Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCobb's Daughter, Carrie, is played by Clare Eames, slim, high-voltage onetime Lady Macbeth in the late James K. Hackett's Shakespearian swashbuckling (crowned by France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage...
Died. James Keteltas Hackett, 57, actor; in Paris, of heart disease, the day before he was to have appeared in Macbeth before the King and Queen of England...
There is not a little unusually interesting writing in the book, the vivid impressionistic description of a revival of "Macbeth" in the first decade of the century being particularly memorable. The style throughout is readable, and as one progresses from chapter to chapter, he finds himself placing increased confidence in the authors critical powers. Polite to other writers in the field with whom he may differ, he makes only the most modest claims for his own work, which is undoubtedly the most generally useful book now available for its period, and certainly, with its particularly well-selected illustrations from...
...Feature Service and later his beginnings of a grander venture, a chain of tabloid newspapers, doubtless young Vanderbilt himself could not say. Perhaps it was very largely her vigorous nature's impatience with any thing or man not standing on its or his own feet that steeled her husband, Macbeth-wise, to great ambitions; to make a place for himself so that he could say, as he did say last winter, "Of all the boys with whom I have associated, I suppose I am the only one who has found fun in work...
Breathless the CRIMSON representative suggested Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Macbeth, Lillie Kupps, all the great figures of histrionc history. She looked disdainful. "I have wanted"--here her lustrous eyes maintained their Tustre--"I have always wanted to play Cinderella--and Betty Bronson has that cinched." The reporter manipulated a sympatic handkerchief. "To be Cinderella--even in Boston on Washington Street--that would be something." The reporter acquiesced; after all it would be something. But he had another thought...