Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company is for the delectation of the tolerant second school. Mr. Leiber's settings and costumes often suggest a theatrical rummage sale; his supporting cast is apt to make up in exuberance what it lacks in finesse. But Mr. Leiber, with energy enough to play Hamlet, Macbeth and Shylock on successive nights, has also gusto enough to concentrate attention on himself, a worthy and gifted player. He sometimes skims his roles but never tortures them...
...players, who during the past week have appeared at the Hollis Theatre in "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", and other plays, will inspect the Shakespearian relics and other dramatic treasures which the Memorial Room houses...
Saturday Evening--"Macbeth...
Last week a dark, slightly exhausted looking young Oxonian with a long nose was loudly cheered when the Oxford University Dramatic Society, of which he is president, staged his production of Macbeth. Oxford's incomparably languid esthetes gathered afterward and drawled their appreciation far into the night-they praised the producer for the simplicity and emotion he had achieved, for his blending of hues, his startling evocation of Banquo's ghost. They devised precious phrases to explain his innuendos...