... the theatrical quality that Fry, for all his verbal flourish, still lacks. Venus Observed has the advantages of impeccable speaking and of two sets (by Roger Furse) as pleasing to the eye as any thing upon the London stage. But Fry has not yet matched speech ...

... what might be called the victim's end of the camera. This did not deter him from stalking his own victims with assiduity. To speak of victims is hardly fair for, from all showing, Carroll knew well how to make a sitting enjoyable no single subject of his ...