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accuracy, those Mrh-hoeled satin shoes are surely
out of '.:. ce.
Mary Eastl-ike may, like Elena Modjeska, hc;vo prove ilocl
against Godwin in the matter of h"r oi-.n cor;tu"e. Polonius
is decribed by the same reviewer as y/onrinr a brocade robe,
and this does not correspond to the derirn ./^n^: rk. ,in f s
papers for a ::rey mantle, brown ovor-ro'vn, and red aiu er-'..o\vxi.
It iij possible that the designs were clvx^ed by Cj;v.in or by
. nother, but it is equally ^or.rible that the critic 'o eyes or
iiis memory were at fruit - hir: ntafciiont thrt Ophelia in iiur
interview with Hamlot wor > nink not in accord v.lth the ;silv"rgrey
veil, and yellov/ and pale blue-green of Godwin's costume
sketch. . .hat ever their coatuner,, the performances: of
Ophelic , Laertes and Polonius in this rcene die not elicit
inuch pr^ico. Hie j-ntr'r.i-.te_ found Laertcc, played by Fr, a':
Cooooi-, "h;,rd and sonev/hat affected", and the Cn^ti' M;? Critic
ventured to cutest that his "most terribly diricctic" tone
WG.'^ evidence of a i'r,nily tr;:it in the r:ic.le line of Polonius*
fuiaily. CliiTord Cooler, as Polonius, cut a be"1 ; cr fi^-are
thcui i.icny of hio younger colleaguec, but snoke too quickly
for thu taote of The Entr'acte, though, as the Cr - vious Critic
observed, he £'ave hie -3.:.rt sufficient huniour "to cervc as a
foil bo the more sc.vious ch:..rr.icter:: rt , ..itliout pi vi:v to 'Gho
gallery, Acco.L-^ins to the ;oromt-co"'y, Onliolia's clocin^,: lino
("I sli; -.11 oboy, my ord") va;-; "tearful", but, c c; unu.-'l, tiio
annotc-tor offers no critical comment on tho iiit'-r^prctrtlon,
The i'ii'f.it v:or(. c of the fourt]i occne hold the next , nr ;rir,o
for the audio ice:
The aii- bites cJiro-.vdly. Is it v?ry cold?
Opinions vrriod on the :iov; i^adi-,.;. -'oinc ."ic\:'dos«d it as a
wilful eccentricity - "frivolous" and "rooolciit of c if cc-citi
inthe v/ordc of '''•jju._^l^>r '- c ';:o * Archer v;os :noc]:in.n;:
...such revorenca for the blLUH'0.or_. of .icnin^,
and C^iLlell's y •'O-f.ct-torr; a> lits of no del1 -;: ;e.
•.'ho ro...r T': is uttorl1.^ MO; iiin- less, unlosc Hrr.il et
.v/ichcd Horatio to trlic the rp"dii>:; of tLc
(The _ 2iiljL " 2 Octobc-r)
-^ cor^cc -ondont fred riok (.c^:::;i'e are^ied t^ t although
Darrett h.-d sot the \l-y in Into ; . ' :i:^;» ^ic ila..ilot felt