Word: webster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Margaret Webster at the directorial helm, the production has spared nothing in the way of costume or set, music or make-up. The result is a magnificent spectacle. Where Miss Webster and her company fail is in the equally important job of creating a unified, tasteful play for a twentieth century audience...
...Miss Webster, who by now is an old hand at producing Shakespeare, has still not mastered the job. She has attempted to tie loose historical ends together with two speeches by a chorus-like character who informs the audience by a homespun Elizabethan intonation of what is happening. And she has aggravated the injury of the famous pre-curtain eulogy to Queen Elizabeth by humorously poor staging...
Until the company can iron out inconsistencies of music and episode, the production will have to rest on the solid foundation of the play and on the spectacularly colorful settings and costumes by David Ffolkes, which make every seene a rich and interesting portrait. If Miss Webster does make use of four weeks in Boston to prune and smooth, American Repertory will be in a strong staring position for the forthcoming sweepstakes...
Fifth Alderman: I did. Even Webster doesn't know what it means...
...drunk and was uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She shined a light and they ran away. The sheriff picked them up and took them to the red brick Webster Parish jail. Along about dusk a couple of nights' later he let them go because nobody had filed any charges against them...