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London's drama critics, not noted for the fire of their enthusiasms, have found better reason in the last several weeks to use glowing adjectives than they often do in the course of a whole theatrical season. Objects of their eloquence: Sir Laurence Olivier's Macbeth at Stratford-on-Avon (scheduled to remain in the Stratford Festival repertory until season's end on Nov. 26) and Orson Welles's blank-verse adaptation of Moby Dick at London's Duke of York's Theater...
...Cinemactress Ruth Roman sailed for England to star in a new film version of Macbeth that sounded more like Mickey Spillane than Shakespeare. Said Actress Roman: "We're doing Macbeth on a sex basis. I'm playing a slut (Lily Macbeth). Joe Macbeth (Paul Douglas) is a gangster who turns yellow and leaves the killing up to Lily. I'll do it with a revolver. We thought a knife would be too bloody...
Many of the library's oldest manuscripts date from before 1500, while others include first editions of Thomas Wolfe, Herman Melville, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Houghton's theatre collection is one of its most unusual attractions--even holding the answer to "whether Macbeth should be played in quilts." A rare series of seventeenth century American almanacs, precursors to Poor Richard, are especially valuable and amusing. Among the wise saying are the following: 'All men like money; some their wives," and "He that marries for love has good nights but sorry days." The world's largest series of books and manuscripts...
Except for the enforced shortage of cameras, color TV worked no production hardship. "We just went ahead as though color hadn't been invented," says Schaefer. One unfortunate result: after the murder of the King, the hands of Evans and Judith Anderson (Lady Macbeth) looked appropriately bloody on black-and-white; on color TV they seemed to be literally dripping with gore...
Maurice Evans, who has already played an excellent Hamlet and a sympathetic Richard II on NBC-TV shows, may have lacked the physical bulk and dominance that seem required for Macbeth. But as always, he spoke with clarity and feeling. So did Judith Anderson, who was superb in the sleepwalking scene. The rest of the cast did not always do so well: the three weird sisters, along with many of the supporting players, often seemed as drowned in gibberish as in mist. For next season, Evans and Schaefer are thinking of deserting Shakespeare for Shaw: Evans has already taken...