Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major Claud MacBeth Moir's quote concerning the Black Watch show: ''Possibly some old regimental officers might turn in their graves [at the jazzed-up regimental routine], but I hope not. I think they would be proud." Well here's an ex-regimental officer who's neither old (33) nor dead nor proud ! When a single battalion can field 100 entertainers, it's time for the "Auld Forty Twa" to turn in its kilts and be issued leotards. Aside from the war of the American Revolution and Suez, this is the most asinine campaign...
...normally outshouted and out-paraded by the Irish, it was a great and noisy occasion: on hand for a 57-city U.S. and Canadian tour were the pipes and drums, regimental band and Highland dancers of Scotland's own Black Watch, under the command of Major Claud MacBeth Moir...
...regimental routine has been jazzed up a little, Major MacBeth Moir admitted, for the benefit of the public: "Possibly some old regimental officers might turn in their graves, but I hope not. I think they would be proud...
Scheduled to sing with the San Francisco Opera Company in Lucia and Macbeth, with thousands of tickets sold weeks in advance, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Callas was reached in Milan, after days of trying via transatlantic telephone, announced on the eve of the opera season that she wanted to cut the number of performances, and postpone their dates. The temperamental diva was promptly fired...
...book proved to be another bedtime story, no longer in the first person singular like the previous two, but still very personal. Its characters hop from boredom to boudoir and back again, and when asked what it all means, the young heroine says not to ask-and quotes Macbeth: "It will make...