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...Tammany Tiger under De Sapio has changed stripes, or that the people think so ? For all the whitewashing . . . the black stripes are still there, even though De Sapio has a new technique. He says Tammany is honest, and-ergo-that is supposed to make it honest. He should read Macbeth once again, to refresh his recollection about a "damned spot" that is still there...
...Psychoanalyst's Nightmare is fun with Freud. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Romeo are psychoanalyzed by Dr. Bombasticus, end up as respectable Rotarians deeply ashamed of their "adolescent" behavior in Shakespeare's plays. "[The doctor] showed me," says Romeo, "that my real motivation was rebellion against the father . . . enabled me to become a staid and worthy upholder of the honor of the Montagues." Says Hamlet: "Dr. Bombasticus persuaded me that I was very young and had no understanding of statecraft. I apologized to my mother for any rude things I might have said." Moral: An ounce...
...about freely interpreting what went on in the minds of men now dead 350 years, so I am claiming the privilege: I believe Shakespeare looked into the future and foresaw that he would be attacked by certain "scholars" and gave his own opinion in Act V, Scene 5 of Macbeth...
Olivier's return to the role of Macbeth, nearly 20 years after he first played it with the Old Vic, was hailed by the London Times's Harold Hobson as "the best Macbeth since Macbeth's." Said Critic Hobson: "It must be admitted that the opening scenes of Sir Laurence's Macbeth are bad; bad with the confident badness of a master who knows that he has miracles to come . . . As distress and agony enter into him, the actor multiplies in stature before our eyes until he dominates the play, and Stratford, and, I would...
Vivien Leigh's Lady Macbeth was not so kindly received. The Observer found her performance "more niminy-piminy than thundery-blundery, more viper than anaconda." But the Times found that her "pale and exquisitely lovely Lady Macbeth does at least explain why Macbeth married her, a mystery that too many Lady Macbeths leave unelucidated...