Word: macbeths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burst of enthusiasm sparse, spry Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee; confessed to his good friend Director Juliana Force of the Whitney Museum several months ago, "I feel as though my life was starting all over again." Critics who went to his exhibition at the Macbeth Gallerys last week knew what he meant. Wrote the New York Times...
...presented to the Library by Charles Moore '78, together with three letters which trace the title of the set form its presentation to Lincoln. An accompanying note reads. "The story of that last Sunday, and the dramatic scene on board the steamer when President Lincoln read the passage form 'Macbeth' which afterward seemed a presage of his own tragic death is recalled by this gift...
Actor Rathbone, whose clerical garb does not prevent him from wearing his usual monstrously cut peg trousers, attends a house party, asks the guests what they want most on earth. The actress (Mary Nash) wants applause and to play Lady Macbeth; the painter (Ernest Cossart) to paint beautifully; the novelist (Ernest Thesiger) to achieve literary kudos; the minister's frowzy wife (Cecilia Loftus) to do her duty; the host (Arthur Byron) wants comfort; his lovely mistress (Diana Wynward) wants love; the disillusioned minister (Robert Lorain) desires advancement so that he may denounce God from the tip-top of High Church...
Beginning with the actress, for whom he finds a legal loophole through which she may escape her present engagement and act in Macbeth, and with the author, whom he provides with an unpublished novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Lucy prepares to offer them all their hearts' desires?at the price of shame. He even convinces the host's mistress that she is in love with him. Labored conclusion of The Devil Passes: people behave decently because something, perhaps God, makes them do so. Naturally, the superior portion of Playwright Levy's comedy occurs prior to the final section in which...
...Ferguses, MacDonalds, MacNeills and the rest all sent delegations to attend the 50th wedding anniversary of His Lordship Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kingshorne. For over 250 of its 800 years, Glamis Castle has been the property of the Bowes-Lyon family. Here by tradition Macbeth did murder Duncan (and sleep). Here Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married King George's son, the Duke of York (TIME, May 5, 1923). Here their second child was born, the Princess Margaret Rose of York (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke & Duchess were much in evidence at the Golden...