Word: macbeth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From Glyndebourne, too, came the New Opera's conductor of last week-hulking, moon-faced German Fritz Busch. This week the New Opera revives Verdi's Macbeth, seldom heard in the U.S. since 1850. Other revivals: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, whose lush melodies and story of a gambler's fate have pleased European but not U.S. audiences, and La Vie Parisienne -Offenbach's satire on the gaslit vulgarities of France's Second Empire...
...best-sellers of recent months have restored the integrated scoundrel to literary popularity. We don't think the Scarlett O'Haras and Sammy Glicks are sound characters from the standpoint of credibility; nor do we agree they are sufficiently rounded to be hailed the modern counterparts of Lady Macbeth. We do admit they make entertaining movie-copy, and--it may be added--plenty of it. In the same vogue are "The Little Foxes," three thorough-going heels now transposed to the screen for one price of admission...
...President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public library of Southport, England, threw out 90 books by P. G. Wodehouse, termed them "waste paper." / / Wandering Ex-King Carol of Rumania showed signs of settling down: he bought two automobiles, leased for three months a residence...
...away big-timing in Harlem. Afterwards he led an unsuccessful jazz band, hit the breadlines, got into Harlem's Y. M. C. A. theatre and later the Federal Theatre. He first played under Orson Welles's direction as Banquo in the Federal Theatre's Negro Macbeth...
There is maintained always a delicate balance between physical and mental action, for, in spite mind is the center of the book's development. Phy-of of the violent murder and its repercussions, Ray's sical action, as in "Macbeth," is both the cause and matter of the subsequent mental action. And "Macbeth" occurs also to Ray, as he leaves Lucy, unable to tell her of his horrible dream...