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...Theater (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Two hours of Macbeth, starring Alec Guinness and Pamela Brown...
...Lady Macbeth? How great an actress is Shirley Booth? What are her limits and capabilities? Audiences are usually so completely taken in by the character she is playing that they are unconscious of Shirley as a skilled performer. But they are likely to remember the character for days or for years to come. Radio listeners who have only known her as Miss Duffy would swear that she is a hilariously funny bit of fuzz-brained fluff. Moviegoers who have seen her only as Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba have difficulty imagining her as anything but an aging frump...
...Macbeth...
This Julius Caesar falls considerably short of the grandeur of Sir Laurence Olivier's Henry V and the overpowering sense of tragedy of his Hamlet. Nor does it have the visual imagination of Orson Welles's Macbeth. But it is satisfying moviemaking, and, as an honest Hollywood try at Shakespeare, it deserves three rousing cheers...
...Conditions seem favorable for a séance this evening," said Herbert Jarrow. And before long, he was in the middle of it; he was chanting a garbled version of the witches' incantations from Macbeth. Tapping Herbert's clasped hands, his daughter Grace whispered: "Mother is here. She has emerged from the Gloom." Mother Jarrow toddled in from the kitchen of their English cottage. "I am here, Herbert," she said, "I'm always near you, Herbert." :'But in a different world," insisted Herbert, "you died and I went...