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Died. James Keteltas Hackett, 57, actor; in Paris, of heart disease, the day before he was to have appeared in Macbeth before the King and Queen of England...
There is not a little unusually interesting writing in the book, the vivid impressionistic description of a revival of "Macbeth" in the first decade of the century being particularly memorable. The style throughout is readable, and as one progresses from chapter to chapter, he finds himself placing increased confidence in the authors critical powers. Polite to other writers in the field with whom he may differ, he makes only the most modest claims for his own work, which is undoubtedly the most generally useful book now available for its period, and certainly, with its particularly well-selected illustrations from...
...Feature Service and later his beginnings of a grander venture, a chain of tabloid newspapers, doubtless young Vanderbilt himself could not say. Perhaps it was very largely her vigorous nature's impatience with any thing or man not standing on its or his own feet that steeled her husband, Macbeth-wise, to great ambitions; to make a place for himself so that he could say, as he did say last winter, "Of all the boys with whom I have associated, I suppose I am the only one who has found fun in work...
Breathless the CRIMSON representative suggested Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Macbeth, Lillie Kupps, all the great figures of histrionc history. She looked disdainful. "I have wanted"--here her lustrous eyes maintained their Tustre--"I have always wanted to play Cinderella--and Betty Bronson has that cinched." The reporter manipulated a sympatic handkerchief. "To be Cinderella--even in Boston on Washington Street--that would be something." The reporter acquiesced; after all it would be something. But he had another thought...
...Actress famed for her Lady Macbeth, her Meg Merrilies. She won a great reputation as a tragedienne when she toured the U. S. with Macready...