Word: macbeths
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...Macbeth is a play, not so much of men and women, as of the wind and the darkness, witches and their gloomy cries. It has been played a thousand ways, by actors, steeped in the colors of their trade, unmannerly breached with gore, who bellow and rant, who incarnadine its multitudinous sea of words with bloody sound and fury...
Margaret Anglin, famed actress, in Philadelphia, hurt her foot. Therefore she resigned from the cast of Macbeth as produced by George C. Tyler, with scenery designed by famed Gordon Craig. Florence Reed, famed actress who has only once played a Shakespearian role, succeeded her when Macbeth opened in Washington, prior to engagements in Manhattan, Boston and elsewhere...
...pruning. Even now, at 73, he ministers to favorite trees from the ground, with a long pruning-saw, much resembling a medieval spear. As he prowls, thus accoutred, around his excessively historic Glamis Castle, romantic persons enjoy fancying that the Earl resembles an early owner of his domain, King Macbeth of Scotland (reigned 1040-57), who, as Shakespeare has told, murdered King Duncan in Glamis Castle...
Some three centuries after Macbeth's death, King Robert II of Scotland begot a daughter from Elizabeth Mure (first mistress, later queen), married the girl to doughty John Lyon, gave him Glamis Castle. Thence the House of Bowes-Lyon descends in unbroken line. Succeeding ancestors were created Baron Glamis (Scotch Creation, 1445), Lord Glamis (English Creation, 1606), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 1677, and Baron Bowes (United Kingdom Creation, 1887). All these titles of course reside in the present Premier Peer of Scotland, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Claud George Bowes-Lyon...
...Playhouse is very new, very magnificent for simple Stockbridge. Not even the familiar sculpture of Master Craftsman French and the portraits of the Johansens could altogether take away a sense of strangeness. Colonists, last week, saw Albert Sterner's dramatic Lady Macbeth, the fine portraits by the sisters Emmett: Lydia Field and Leslie. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman, successor of John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum in chiseling the heroic Stone Mountain relief, showed Vanity, a bronze figure of a woman with a mirror. These were the work of the native colonists...