Word: macduff
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When Senator Guffey had heard Senator Burke call his radio speech "cheap stuff, tawdry stuff;" when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt had called him the ally of "bosses and corruptionists" and when Senator Wheeler, shaking a long lean finger at his enemy, had croaked: "Lay on Macduff and damned be he that first cries Hold, Enough," the Senate had seen a very bitter scene of personal animosity...
...border, when the widowed Mrs. William (June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal...
Except for actors who have to get in trim for the moment when Macbeth tells Macduff to lay on, fencing is not a practical accomplishment in the modern world; it is, however, an exercise requiring excellent physical condition. Last week in Manhattan the Salle d'Armes Vince team won the national three-weapon championship of the Amateur Fencers League of America principally because they were more youthful, in better condition than their experienced opponents. With the foils, against the limited target of a padded chest; with the stiffer French duelling sword or epee, with which hits count when scored...
...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...