Word: macbeths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson in a repeat of last year's superb production of Macbeth, much of which was filmed at Scotland's Hermitage Castle. Color...
Abboud's visit produced a historical footnote. After a state banquet, the Kennedys led Abboud, a lover of theatricals, and other guests into the East Room of the White House, where, on an improvised stage, the American Shakespeare Festival troupers presented excerpts from Macbeth and four other plays. It was Shakespeare's first visit inside the White House, although earlier troupers had declaimed the Bard for Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft on the White House lawn...
...Family seat: ancient Glamis Castle, where, according to legend, Scotland's King Duncan was done in by the ambitious Macbeth...
Angels & Demons. American readers can now sample Leskov's insight and variety in a new collection, generally well Englished by David Magarshack. The first story, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, is the Leskov work best known in this country because of the Shostakovich opera based on it (1934)-It is a quietly told story of an increasingly violent passion. The avalanche of sensuality starts when a bored wife has an affair with a young clerk on her old husband's household staff, and leads with chilling practicality to a murder, then to another and another...
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Macbeth and Troilus and Cressida, the last in a pointless Civil War setting...