Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This half-gorgeous, half-garrulous fantasy does not take easily to the stage, and is seldom performed. But last week, under the shrewd direction of Margaret Webster, who has pumped new life into Hamlet, Macbeth, many another Shakespeare play, The Tempest, proved surprisingly good theater. Its length cut, its storyline sharpened, its comedy underscored, it held to gether and moved along, became a more mettlesome play than the one Shakespeare wrote...
Meanwhile the Kingston, Ont. Whig-Standard has posed some fine questions. Exactly what is a horror, program-one capable of inspiring horror? Then will that keep off the air dramatizations of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe? Richard III? Othello? Macbeth...
...Bowes-Lyon, 89, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of England's Queen Elizabeth; in Forfarshire, Scotland. Worried by taxes, the spare, benign Earl once feared he would have to sell his Glamis Castle (pronounced Glarms), "the oldest inhabited house in Britain," long supposed the spot where Macbeth murdered Duncan and sleep...
...Southern American Negro" was Frederick Ira Aldridge, the date 1826. Among his Desdemonas: Ellen Tree, whose husband, famed Charles Kean, played Iago. In Europe's capital Actor Aldridge also played other Shalespearean roles (e.g., Lear, Shylock, Macbeth.) He married a Swedish baroness (by whom he had three children), died as he was about to return to America to set the record that had to wait 76 years for Paul Robeson...
Coming back to reunion the following year, a student shook his professor's hand and said: "I got more out of that course in Shakespeare than out of any other. . . . What a wonderful play Macbeth was. I've" always wondered how it came out." Neither Cross nor Canby would have anything to do with such endless exegesis ot an author, and they managed gradually to impress their more liberal views on the Yale faculty as a whole...