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...Helen of Troy will at last be made public on the stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans a "musicalization" of Alice in Wonderland. George C. Tyler will produce Macbeth with Margaret Anglin, Lyn Harding and settings by Gordon Craig. Anne Nichols threatens with Abie's Children and a musical version of Just Married. Florenz Ziegfeld has enticed Ina Claire back into the musical comedy from which she started. Alexander Moissi, late of Reinhardt's troupe, will appear...
...second folio is dated 1632. It is open at the page which lists the names of the actors in Shakespeare's company of players. Among these names is that of the famous Richard Burbage for whom part of Macbeth was written. It is to two other members of the troupe that the world is indebted for having collected their leader's plays and published them in polio form. The other two folios on exhibition are dated...
Among his selections will be the following: the story of Naaman and Elisha, selections from the Book of Ruth, and the third chapter of the General Epistle of James; and from Shakespeare, the famous Crispin speech of Henry V, before the Battle of Agincourt, and several scenes from Macbeth...
...collection, unusually large in its scope, extends from 1780 until 1820, and is drawn from the bills of the Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket theatres. Before the playbill for March 10, 1788, for the presentation of Macbeth, is a long notice for the Morning Post apparently in the handwriting of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who was at this time lessee of the Drury Lane theatre...
...know in the second act where to have the play. Ethel's snakelike husband calls her a mock Lady Macbeth. She has married this Harold Carter, older and colder than herself, for security, and hopes of seeing the world. To get her, he deluded her with a daydream of life in India. Now that he knows she will never love him, he poisons her daydreams. Their mutual hate-although the play does not quite show how-becomes their bond. Through a lover she contrives his murder...