Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to do, gives unnecessarily much for the money. Oldster Eden Phillpotts has made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...
Actress Cornell, in staking her queenhood last week on kingly love, Roman honor and Andre Obey, did it with both eyes open. She believes the part is a test for her. If she succeeds, she wants sometime to do Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra...
...insatiable Shylock, his representative in Europe-for Norman Davis is playing the role of a super-Ambassado-is interfering between France and Germany and between France and Italy. . . . Europe's foreign politics seem to be to the United States a kind of hellbroth into which Mr. Hoover, like Macbeth's witches, keeps pouring new poison...
...Muhlberg's pronouncement, moreover, should find staunch advocates in quite another direction. Take, for example, the tutor who offered a tutee three fingers of Port and uncovered forthwith a chipper reaction to the intricacies of Lady Macbeth. The domain bounded by green glass and shiny labels has obviously been too long neglected by purveyors of modern education. But the thought occurs,--imagine rising with a hangover to greet a nine o'clock on the "Amenities of Gin," and an eleven o'clock laboratory exercise in "The Art of the little finger as applied to Chartreusel...
...Macbeth", Professor Kittredge, Harvard...