Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regarding Prime Minister Churchill's warning to the Allied peoples (TIME, July 12), he might have quoted a fellow countryman as well as St. Paul. Remarked Boss Witch Hecate in Shakespeare's Macbeth...
...Hawaii last winter, in charge of entertaining the troops, went Broadway's most high-brow actor, Captain Maurice (Hamlet, Macbeth) Evans. In Hawaii this spring he is offering the Army's most low-brow show, a bawdy, corny musical called Hey, Mac, that the dogfaces are eating...
...ceremony" and became great by rejecting his youthful dissipation and embracing the just and divine ideals of the perfect monarch. Hamlet's world was shattered when his mother, the Queen, married her late husband's brother before the deceased husband was cold in his grave. And when Macbeth murders his saintly relative, King Duncan, the outrage is unparalleled...
Over their drinks, theater people sometimes play a game: they dream up casts for great plays. With opium-pipe prodigality, they sometimes devise a Hamlet in which Lionel Barrymore plays the second gravedigger, a Macbeth in which Tallulah Bankhead plays the third witch. But they know that not only would the cost of such productions be staggering, but collecting all the right people would be a super human feat...
...Three Sisters rose to fame, 18 years ago, as the sultry siren of Cobra. Since then Australian-born Actress Anderson has played Lavinia Mannon in O'Neill's, Mourning Becomes Electro, the Queen in the Gielgud Hamlet, the Mother of Jesus in Family Portrait, Lady Macbeth to the Macbeth of Maurice Evans. Quiet, practical, an actress without frills, she has less glow than Actress Cornell, less glitter than Actress Gordon, greater range and resourcefulness than either. Of her Critic Percy Hammond once remarked that, unlike other actresses, she could be "reticently excited." And she is painstaking...