Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many benefits in that system. Yet, when there are so many facts to be learned by heart, certain details to be harped on endlessly, teaching becomes as soulless as was the music at an old silent movie. For example, in the Old Plan Restrictive English Examination, grammatical rules. MacBeth, Silas Marner, Burke's Conciliation and few others are carefully memorized and then like trained animals the students perform them for the examination. For all the examiner could tell, these seven or eight books might be all the pupil had ever read...
...Author- In 1883, into an atmosphere reeking with literary and dramatic talent, Edward Montague Compton (Mackenzie is his ancestors' clan name) was born. His father was an able actor; his aunt was "Leah" Bateman, famed Lady Macbeth; his actress sister Fay Compton still holds the boards. After Oxford he took to writing plays, finally to novel-writing. He fought in the War, was invalided out as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and O. B. E. After the War he leased from King George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books...
...newspaper accusations of over-caution, 3) sponsored by the right art dealers. Art dealers are not supposed to bid against a museum, but they have broken the rule in the past few years. Hence the Metropolitan is not friendly toward dealers, except two classes: the dignified old dealers like Macbeth and the very young, radical galleries not likely to want the same pictures as the Metropolitan, like the Rehn, Downtown and Milch Galleries. Curator Burroughs selected two painters each from the Macbeth, Rehn, Downtown and Milch Galleries and one from Ferargil. Several good examples by each man were sent...
...Macbeth Gallery gave first exhibitions to Homer Dodge Martin, Alexander Wyant, Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, Ernest Lawson, dozens of others. William Macbeth's greatest coup was his sponsorship of his funereal friend, the late great Arthur B. Davies. Sensitive Artist Davies had a studio right over the gallery, lunched with William Macbeth every day, used to bring his pictures down to exhibit before the paint was dry, was always free to borrow all the cash in the till...
...William Macbeth died in 1917, but the ideas, the blood of the Founder persist. The Gallery is now operated by his son Robert and his nephew Robert G. McIntyre, as a stronghold of workmanlike, conservative painting. Rotund Robert Macbeth will have no truck with modernists, publishes blasts against such violent fellows as Pablo Picasso...