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...According to William Shakespeare, however, the perils were: "malice domestic, foreign levy'' -Macbeth...
This is the first of eight Shakespeare plays docketed on Broadway for this season, including Producer Gaige's Macbeth which follows Othello, Leslie Howard in Hamlet, the Lunts in The Taming of the Shrew,* Katharine Cornell again in Romeo & Juliet. Such able actors and their enterprising producers are currently creating something of a Shakespeare revival and proving that senescence is no proper criterion of ability to interpret the Bard that his plays are not only fine literature which can be declaimed with distinction but meaty melodramas which can be acted with vitality. Miss Cornell's glowing performance last...
Seven dusky members of the cast who are on the ERA dramatic payroll were unexpectedly booked for a showing of Macbeth at the Abraham Lincoln High School in Cambridge earlier in the evening...
Football has brought out an exceptionally large number of candidates this fall. Other factors which have contributed to the pre-college sociability of Cambridge streets are the Bible and Shakespeare exams which have also favorably affected the gate receipts of "Macbeth" and "Othello" in Boston this week, the early issues of the various publications, and the necessity of changing schedules, rooming quarters and so forth...
...itself. Technically as adept as Chapayev, with an equally good performance by Boris Chirkov (last month made an "Honorary Artist of the Republic"), The Youth of Maxim also contains a musical score and sound arrangements contributed by U. S. S. R.'s brilliant young composer. Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk). It begins a trilogy which will carry the biography of Maxim up to the present time. Best sound: "Varshayianka," sung by workers in jail to infuriate their guards...