O, Blood, Blood, Blood!
SOME critic has said that the idea of ~ blood runs like -a scarlet thread through Macbeth, From Duncan’s opening "What bloody man is this?" to Malcolm’s final reference to the "dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" we are never permitted to escape from it. In this respect, if in no other, Jack Maybury, who covered the Bos MurphyWillie Jones fight for 2ZB the other Saturday night, is another Shakespeare. First chord in the remorseless theme was struck in Act IL, when it was mentioned that Murphy’s nose was bleeding, there was blood upon his face. In the course of the next four or five acts frequent mention showed he was. still badg’d with it. By Act VI. or thereabouts Murphy’s skin was well laced with gore, which had even flowed on to his trunks, making the white one red. (We can picture the laundress on Monday apostrophising the spot.) An act or so further on we received with relief our commentator’s announcement that the fountain of Murphy’s blood was _ stopped, only to find it resuming its
remorseless flow in the next. (Personally, we were surprised that the young man should have had so much blood in him.) By Act XII. we had decided that boxing was fit to rank with cock-fighting as a blood sport, but were infinitely relieved to find that Murphy was still sufficiently unbowed to mutter into the mike a few words about the best man winning, before being led off to have a little water cleanse him of the deed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 22
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258O, Blood, Blood, Blood! New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 22
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