"Maxwell Grant - The Shadow - 288 - Merry Mrs.MacBeth" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Maxwell)

MERRY MRS. MACBETH
Maxwell Grant
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REHEARSAL was over at the Half Moon Theatre.

Costumed as Romeo, Alan Fenway finished his impassioned plea to the balcony where the ghost of
Hamlet's father was standing with folded arms. Vera Scharn, otherwise Lady Macbeth, ceased her
somnambulistic prowl, tucked her dagger into the sash of her ruffled negligee and shrugged her way off
stage.

In the background, the Three Witches quit their chant of "Daily Double, boil and bubble" and left the
huge cauldron which smoked with compressed steam in the glow of artificial firelight.

Oswald Bodelle turned around in seat D-3, gave a broad-faced smile and queried:

"Well, Terry, what do you think?"

Terry Dundee took off his tortoise-shell glasses, gave a sharp squint of the shrewd eyes that flanked his
long-beaked face and responded:
"You're asking for it, Ossie. Confidentially--"

"Never mind the rest," interrupted Bodelle, with a warding wave of his fat hands. "But since you're being
honest, tell me this." Tone lowered, Ossie put the question sincerely. "Can you kid the public, into
thinking it's good?"