The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-09
TYLER WILL
SEND US MACBETH"

George c. Tyler's production of
Shakespeare's Macbeth" will be
staged at the Murat Thursday,
March 81.
The cast is headed by Florence
Reed in the role of Lady Macbeth.
Miss Reed is regarded as Americas
greatest emotional actress and
hailed by critics of New York and
Chicago as doubtless the greatest
Lady Macbeth who ever trod the
stage.
Lyn Harding, the distinguished
Welsh actor, who has played in all
but a very few of the Shakespearean
plays, will be seen in the title role,
the hag-ridden Macbeth. William
Farnum, motion picture star, re-
turns to the classic stage in the role
of Macduff.
Fred Eric will play Banuuo and
Douglas Ross will be King Duncan.
Prominent in the cast are Perciyal
Vivian, Olive Oliver, Leonard Nude,
William P. Carleton, Bryan Hughes,
Harold Hartsell, Burford Hampden,
Gerald Lingard, Arthur Barry, Har-
old Thomas, Tom Manning, Gloria
Kelly, George Macready and many
others.
This is Fl new Macbeth" The
novelty is provided in the design
ment" by Gordon Craig, the dis
tinguished continental artist, re-
garded as the outstanding figure in
the worlds theater. 1t is by far the
largest Shakespearean production
ever staged in America.
Macbeth" comes to this city
blown on all the trumpets of the
east and west. The most copious
and enthusiastic newspaper COM
ment comes from New York, from
Chicago, from Cleveland and De-
troit, where 10000 people saw it in
a single day.
The huge auditorium in Chicago,
which is the home of the Chicago
Civic Opera, was filled at every
performance of the engagement
there, and at matinees the house
was packed with school children
from pit to dome. Chicago news
papers have made astonished COM
ment on the phenomenon of high
school students finding Shakespeare
to be a show"
Every device has been employed
to enrich and bring out the dra-
matte situations and the poetic
qualities of Shakespeare. Pomp
pageantry, poetry-the winds of the
Scottish border, the vail of the
pibroch, the clash of the claymore,
the march of Highland men,
witches music and choral features;
trumpeters, pipers, singers, trouba-
dours and tumblers in the ghosts
banquet; color and movement and
beauty on a scale commensurate
only with grand opera. One hun
dred people are used in the presen-
tation.
For the first time great Shake
spearean play is presented with the
dramatic action stressed by a tempo
faster than that of the old school,
yet preserving all the poetic beauty
of the play. Play, players, scenic
and costume assignment and music
represent all that it best in the arts
of the theater.
AS the supernatural element is
predominant in Macbeth" Craig
in his assignment has suggested as
far as possible the occult power Of
the wierd sisters His effects are
obtained as largely through light
ing as through physical form and
architectural treatment in design.
This presentation is considered by
critics as the greatest achievement
IN the long career of George C. Ty-
Ter, who has given the theater such
dramatic Spectacles as 1.-THE Garden
of Allah" Joseph and His Breth-
rem" and THE Daughter of Heaven
and such notable all-star revivaIs
as THE Rivals" "Trelawny of the
Wells" Diplomacy" and "She
Stops to Conquer"