... this perform ance--pause regularly in the middle, or else speak the verse colloquially without any sort of ca dence. Oddly enough, the mem bers of the present cast with most experience in speaking Shakespear ean verse are not called upon to use it. They ...

... dancing in semi darkness agaiust a backcloth lighted with hues of blue, purple, and crimson, an Old-Time Wander ing Minstrel speaks a sort of Pro logue, and Jest r and Showman also appear, as well as the main par ticipants in cast or story. We should draw ...

... become her third husband, in succession to Tom and Michael, with regard to whose respective positions in the chamber within she speaks with embarrassing frankness. However, Mollie, with indications of the virago cleverly shown by Miss Mary Clare, seen only ...

... one arm clasping ier. The aim is at intimacy, but t i overdone. As a variant. Mr. Sarrvmore mate* Hamlet, when he ihould be speaking directly to lis mother just before the entry >f the Ghost go into a sort of ?csfasv. He stands erect, apart, i lot looking ...

... Marie. this romance of the Canadian Rockies has a strong and sufficiently in teresting plot when it i not dammed up. so to speak, by the introduction of more or le*s extra neous mattei. It open- in a saloon at Saskatche wan. pretentiously styled Lady Jrnc ...

... Forbes-Robertson plays with fine effect as the mysterious Stranger, giving the proper air of reticence to the character, whilst speaking his lines clearly and with due em phasis. He is making his chief sucoeas in the happily written second ait. Next we would ...

... the author's view of history in regard to the period and its figure, and unless one v as much mistaken, the Great Clod Ra speaks a line or two of it in th Irish accent. It is not necessary to go Into Shaw's reading of Ca'sar and Cleopatra at this time ...

... refuses help from everyone who would take 'ii interest in his wel fare. Mr. Anderson has just that detached staccato style of speaking that carries it through. Mr. Mil ton Ilosmor was duly brutal and offensive as Kimber/ His was a very trying part, being almost ...

... character of Ted was con cerned. The maniacal fury and also almost romantic sentimentality of the steward, who habitually speaks of himself as Ted, tout court, tare given so me sort of explanation by the statement that he was half ^'Armenian; and certainly ...

... had loved in Rome, and who fears the worst sTiould Cleopatra see her lover. Charmian's fears are well founded but, roughly speaking, when Cleopatra has finished with Silvius. she goes off to meet Mark Anthony at Tarsus, apparently (ac- cording to a song) ...

... C. Aubrey Smith plays with all his skill and assurance as the 6adly perplexed Sir John Dorle, but the character, properly speak ing, does not come eo well within the range of farce as the othep do. Mile. Yvonne Arnaud's admirable Lady Dorle, for instance ...

... forward very effectively, but her obvious bent, at present, is for more ingiuu? parts. She has an attrac tive appearance, speaks splendidly, and takes naturally to the stage if one may express it so baldly. Mr. James Raglan acts with natural spirit as ...