Word: macbeths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Scenes of Macbeth," Professor Kittredge, Harvard...
...Macbeth," Professor Kittridge, Harvard...
...Cleveland Orchestra began a real opera season last week with Wagner's Die Walkure, cast with such expert singers as Soprano Dorothee Manski. Tenor Paul Althouse, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Cleveland has five other operas scheduled. Chiefly important is Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Philadelphia is also trying its hand at the Shostakovich opera under Conductor Fritz Reiner...
Directed in leisurely style by Norman Taurog against a good 1890 background, Mrs. Wiggs, as adult entertainment, rests on the wide eyes, the mobile mouth, the flustery gesturings of Pauline Lord. The homeliness of her acting is made more interesting by an undertone which partly suggests Lady Macbeth, partly an Episcopal bishop...
...Beaumont and Fletcher, a volume belonging originally to the Earl of Bridgewater, elder brother to Milton's Comus; a copy of a 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems in the original calf binding; a 1577 edition of Hollinshed's Chronicles, opened to a woodcut of the meeting between Macbeth and Banquo and the three witches; and the first collected edition of Jonson's Discoveries with attention drawn to Johnson's famous remark that...