Word: macduff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgive you much for your book editor's drubbing of Elmer Gantry. Lay on Macduff, and-you know the rest...
Clare Fames is an admirable foil as Lady Macbeth, sharp and thrusting as a dagger against Hackett's tremendous battle-axe personality. Moffat Johnston (as Macduff) and the supporting company are well chosen. The massive settings suit this dreadnought production. Hackett has even arranged appropriate incidental music to show his complete mastery of the play...
Princess Arthur receives half of the residuary estate absolutely; of the remainder, after other bequests have been met, half is hers in trust for life and the other half goes to her son, the Earl of MacDuff. If the Earl (aged 9) dies before reaching the age of 21, the trustees of the estate become possessed upon trust for King George. Princess Arthur also has the choice of "two diamond necklaces, his plate, all effects of his town house, his consumable stores, horses, carriages, motorcars...
...Human Race. Swinburnes Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Ronsard, all Crabbe the Lowes and fishes...
...story concerns the doings of young Rolo Webster, who has great aspirations to act Hamlet, and accordingly employs the services of Mr. Stein, a theatrical manager, in order to produce Shakespeare in New York. His sudden attraction for Goldie MacDuff, who is cast as Ophelia, and a grandfather who would much rather see Rollo interested in air-brakes than in acting, cause complications in the plot; while the attempt of Rollo's company to produce Hamlet brings in the farcical element. In places the farce is carried a little too far, and the unreality of it makes it less effective...