Macbetto and Lady

A half-forgotten opera, on the shelf for nearly a century, was dusted off last week to make an exciting surprise for Manhattan audiences.

It was not broad or even Shakespearean Scots the witches talked, but operatic Italian. They hailed him as "Macbetto, di Glamis Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Candor Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Scozia Re!". He was Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King of Scotland--and hero of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi which was last given in Manhattan in 1850. This Mediterranean Macbeth, revived by Mrs. Lytle Hull's New Opera Company (TIME, Oct. 27), made a stirring music drama. Able Fritz Busch conducted.

Macbetto was Baritone Jess Walters, a 32-year-old Brooklynite of modest stature but big voice. Philadelphian Florence Kirk, 27, as his indomitable Lady, prowled and strode upstage & down, drove her soprano hard, managed by sheer intensity to make Via, ti dico, o maledetta! sound as if it really were Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

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