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Alhainbra Theatre in December i860 three of the principals
were too stout. The programme for Masks and Paces (Haymarket,
January 1881) is covered with memoranda of the mistakes made
in a production whose archaeological details were under vYingfield's
care - Godwin wrote a letter to a newspaper to complain
of these inaccuracies. When bored, he drew designs, such as
the swords with different hilts which appear on a programme
for Clemency, or the Power of Love (by Hugh Fart ton, after
Augier's Plane) at the Park Theatre, Camdon Tov/n on February
21, 1881. Some of the notes offer information of n. different
kind, such 03 o. Description of i''orcutio*s "laugh ah ah to
begin" in the Court Theatre production of 1881 (v/ith Mme
Kodjeska) as "like Whietlsr".
'/he programmes of the Tt!eiiiingen Cocip'-ny's 1881 visit to
Drury Lone are ecpec i:\lly interesting. Together v/ith a sketch
of the assassination scene in Julius Cae&ar arc "Phosphorescence
sweoving by no thunder and. ligiitening ever so real" and
"1st scene back cloth forum fine*', agairiL b \.liicli io set "Scene
of foruii oaring speeches over body fins the rabble too v/ell
dressed". In Tv.-olf th I'ii.vit, \vhilct appreciating the us-e of
a ctDirccse txac1 tLs felicity of some details ("ho p of melons
in corner to ripen") lie coin^lr.insdj
Viola enters not dioaovelled o^ilorc v/or.k "but
all have shoes -orottily tied.
On rcfl«c±ioii he struck out "tied" and substituted "etrcv^ped".
•^ic.- . i.K "'... ±J-^ dicmr.yccT him b its multiplicity of architectural
otyles ranging from "Alhumbra" (Leontos -pc.lr.ce) to "12th
Ccnty... Cimabue...^ornan Renaissance Cabinet" and, least
congruous of all, "rodoni Criro". On n pro-rnnrnc for one of
the -jr.'.ys precented by the Dutch coa-onny c.urinr their vicit
in 1880, Coduin rcvir-rkod that in n brrhcr'r, rho:o cccnes
customer wit-i ^i^e going uriiiin.;- with it in
as he fcocc...pause before bo:,anning new subject
not folio-, cue at once.
.'•:ic attention tvao focacoc: not only on the jn-o-oortios and
ocenery of the productions^ho sr.v/, but on acting c-tyle and
"direction" of the