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The Orson Welles Interprets "Macbeth
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JEANNE CRAIN ETHEL BARRYMORE
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CHARLES K. FELDJAAN presents
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MACBETH
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One could go to see Orson "Macbeth" fully Welles's prepared for disappoint- ment. Scottish history would be portrayed with an up-to-date American ae-- cent by genial buddles-in- armour. Or, worse, Mue- beth would deviate far enough from Shakespeare to end up as a smiling Santa Claus..
Neither of these things happened. Whenever Orson Welles felt he could not prevent a twang from the New World, he somehow
managed to disguise it as
a bur....perhaps from the
lens themselves,
must thenk At any rate we him for the obvious vulce. control resulting from his direc- th. Unfortunately, whether as Macbeth or as Orson Welles,
prevent couldn't
that
ht
inal
Lady of cutburst Macbeth who, despite the fact that she was only skep-walking, Kave a remarkably the perfor Talle 15 0 American school- murm light for the rst time.
Jeanette Nolan mistred al- together as Lady Macbeth. Her neling gave the impression that she was not sure whether she should be too weak to be force- tut or ton forceful to be weak. One or other of these fer would have done, but nut both.
1
The rest of the cast was fair After
www cthild have squirmed in our seats Dilys Pov 1 dl when hoary
old warrior J1 "The to a clan Swordsman" referred war " a "quor?",
Always Welles
sonic
Orson Welles is always good. because he's always Orson Weller. He must be one of the fw actor car can forgive for not allowing his audience to for- gel who he is. As a director and as an actor he thows taste and
straint.
"Tacbeth," the week-end attraction at the Lee Theatre, is the sixth screen version of a play to Shakespeare that Hongkong elsema-coer have been treated to. It is an Orson Welles' effort, with Welles giving his interpretation of Macbeth and of the appropriate scen- ery that should go with Scotish pre-history.
Whatever else be has failed to do. Welles with his "Macbeth" has explored new possibilities in the adaptation of Shakespeare to the serven.. The Ideas he presents must meet with a mixed reception, Ilia decor takes in all the elements in an unlinly fury and those otherwise unacquainted with Bonnie Seolland might be led to the belief that it or was oure-a land the sun never shines on.
Welles carefully picked his characters for "Macbeth" from the stare and the radio. They They were not fil-chosen, hut their Interpretation of Shakespeare is a Wellestan one. cannot be held responsilite for what they portray. A blund-curdling atmosphere is laid on from the opening scene and the argument arises that Shakespeare waukl, perhaps have pre- ferred his witches more human.
As we progress with Welles from scene to scene and from one act to another all of the macabre is dragged up from the bottom of the cauldron and a snake pli' atmosphere reigns over all with au cerie grasdeur.
a bare stage with the cant "Macbeth" may be acted on
all in evening alire, or Welles prefers to call a spade a spade (or is it a by an al-Negru or an all-Japanese cast.
Those to whom Shake- Pict a Pict). What he finally produces ranks as a great experiment. speare or the Interpretation of him are not subjects to be left to scholars of the classics would do themselves and Welles an injustice by missing the film,
THE REAL STAR OF
THIS FILM IS THE
THEME
Pinky (Jeanne Crain) and her grandmother (Ethel Waters) in a tense moment after Pinky comes back to her poor negro home,
"Pinky," showing today in
Well-scrubbed
women
sooner
are
wed
SAYS BETSY DRAKE
A girl with the "well- scrubbed look" is far more interesting to men than a "painted lady," says Betsy Drake: who represents the truth of her own statement. Belay, who has the well- washed appearance et a healthy
le recently no interested Cary: Grant that he claimed her for This bride.
"1 there's anything that makes a man lose interest," says Betsy, "It's too much makeup. It makes a woman lonit artifletul.
deesn't "That
mean
I'm avained cosmetics. which when judiciously applied actually en- hance
woman's natural charm. But it's got to be used
ensibly.
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THE 1950 FACE
"I see where some New York wined and desperate #1
have 10- experts Ethel Water: fashion at the Rosy and Broadway the ends pride.
grand leo, and Ethel Barrytroduced what they call the
1950
which seems to Ince,' the more the fourth of the Blm's Theatres, laya bare
consist of heavy black lines colour problem. This is a Mari As an imperious old by. of this
around the eyes, and a cupitl's- So many oversenger film-men | vital theme, and it should But the real "star"
how mouth with two shales of would have out-Shakespeared
Hortick -SED. Shakespeare. Which brings us prick most "whites" into an is the theme.
tu something fearest but which carnest never materialised
m did follow the
Fer
examination
of
make
the their attitudes towards
I WON'T some uncenuntable resin l-coloured people, and javdurers choose a tragedy and them ponder about what then turn it into a comedy. they would do if embroiled IN FLYNN
they have this care
refrained in a "colour" crisis. from mucking about with Shake- speare.
The play, except for a few details, is very closely followed. 11 i reat pity that
the cauldron scene in Act. IV has Feen omitted. And how add that this should be so when tnost stage productions are spoilt be- cute this very scene is often Although one tell the overdone!
unknown power" of the witches,
es, could they not have had little
of that strength and more
that Shakespeare to have?
grandeur Beaut
nt them The decor provided the right buck round. A few years to We should probably have been
palalal rooms
shown
tening fact
with
crystal. The
that Macbeth aud his "Aen-like queen" lived samalour and would have laugh- ed at our ideas of any reine-
In their era doen ment
letract from the fascination their story.
No Bagpipes
few years
not
Pinky (Jeanne Crain) is a ve- gro girl, a nurse, who passes for white. She and a white doctor William Lundigan) are in love, ant the emotional whirpool
quickens when she returns to her poor negro home and grand- Inother (Ethel Waters), and he follows and learns her tecret.
slow-moving film, but It is a
theme streng- the provocative Inen Interest ll the couple rench the crossroads, where com- promise for either means an un- happy undertone.
and
The sullen resentment flaring violence of the bulk of the white population portrayed makes one wonder if any theatre in America's South banned this dim.
Jeanne Crain's performance is senditive and realistic, She
in
of grow. His muste keeps us
the mists that surround the ancient wonds of Bienam,
In "Macbeth" Shakespeare has given us his own magic the magic of A
ngo, too, we combined with
anelent Scotland. But he has should have been treated to done it in such a subtle way bagpipes or a phantasia OD
and other that one is surprised to find i "Loch Lamond"
recognised.
Orson Welles,
right
10
Atta
at
the director, most definitely grasped but by adding his own .. touch of magie he has tended to over-sweeten the potion. he brought a little more
have been bored
well-known Scottish airs.
have would
followed through the fim, and risen great helchts of melodrama all the crucial moments.
for ad Whom
must we thank Ibert's Incidentol musio? Ibert reality tulo his direction we
in the first should never himself, of course, place. But one wonders if lis
(as unfortunately we 100 often music would have been accept were).
"Macbeth" is definitely worth director, has
Most realised that Macbeth seeing: but only once,
ait people would willingly Cocs back
beyond history to through "Hamlet" or "Henry V The realms of Legend.
egain. But with "Macbeth" Occasionally he allows
.once is enough. Incipient Scots Bavour Into his
M. Ta Fay. to teare-but never allows it
James STEWART • Honry FONDA • Paulette GODDARD ed in time gone by. The com- Derothy LAMOUR * Burgess MEREDITH* Victor MOORE porer, like the
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reach for a cigarette instead."
Betsy thinks the well- rabbed look is positively the beat one.
Lauren Bacall, notress wlio had Humphrey Bogart, been suspended by her studio, Warner Brothers, because she refused to accept a role op- posite Errol Flynn In pic ture titled "Rocky Mountain." The part was "of negligible she unportance," alt.
is her alxib suspension. It is
Joined Warner Since the Brothers in 1944 Mise Bacall has made even flims,
"Keeple: your face clean and ree," she declared, makes you look so fresh and natural that en think they've discovered t new kind of woman.
"And when a man thinks he got a new kind of woman, he mukes
an old-fashioned decision. marries her."
lle
"Villains' can be
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mother-in-law
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