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thrt the stt l,yinu , although "uainpgin; tive
and stony" had been more ap>ropriate. Gilbert V;CG lesa .
satisfied, as Jtery Anderson admitted in her autobio^r- phy:
Mr. Gilbert did not r-gree with my conception of
the clc ssic mev.nin^ of Galatea's character -
which seemed to me its strongest and most eflective
side - saying that the play '..ati a nineteenth
century comedy, dressed in Greek costume, "..uich,"
he ,?dded, "is the dnly classic thing cbout it".
(A .-. ev/ Memories, p. 149)
No serious brea c ; ppe^rs to heve resulted from this cdsf.greement,
for wiss Anderson was pondering the procuction
of another of the author's plays, and relations ran;, iriec
sufficiently cordial for he.' to rttenc. a re he; rspl of
^.ld;. in January .
In I'rrch the Lyceum season ended. Mayy Anderson took
a vacation whilst Lav;rence Br.rrett, the American cgtor, put
on a season of his best-known perforrunces. The