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...World is taking itself too seriously," says Premier Nitti of Italy; and we think that perhaps he may be right. Our "ravelled sleeve of care" is in a more tattered state than Macbeth's ever was, so that something more than sleep will be needed to knit it up again. And even Hamlet's eminently just complaint that the times were out of joint would today be ranked as an improper understatement of the facts...
...quite sure what remedies Macbeth or Hamlet would suggest for our present maladies. With all their excellent qualities, neither of those gentlemen would be suited to express an intelligent opinion on Prohibition, or the Overalls Movement, or Sinn Fein. If such afflictions as these had been added to their lot, we are confident that neither of them would have succeeded in surviving beyond Act Three...
...would be impossible to accuse the creator of Portia, Lady Macbeth, and Rosalind of being hostile to "women's rights." Yet "The Taming of the Shrew" is a healthy antidote for the overdose of feminism we are getting today. It is somewhat startling to hear a magnificent woman of Miss Marlowe's mould declaim: "The husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." It might be profitable for young men to acquaint themselves with the strategy of shrew taming as employed by the Elizabethans, and depicted by Mr. Sothern...
...eulogize the scene where this "most charming in years in Boston ingenue" held the stage alone for almost five minutes while she minced about to the melody of a popular tune on a fifteen-dollar Victoria. Perhaps this was like the porter's scene in Macbeth, to give the audience relief from tension. They were wrought up to the utmost of tensity, wondering what Bunker was packing in his suitcase, and needed relief...
...orchestra's baton; and a few real bits of music. We are so used to recognizing the unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle, and a typical Broadway monologist...