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good deal". The Illustrated s_portin,.._ L -ua L'r^^tic j._e_. s i ,vai
Terriso almost completely ir eking in "self-abandonnent, and
i:is; Anderson deficient in sincerity 01 feeling:
she cannot thro v her hole heart into her x.ords
- perhaps because she has no heart to throw.
It concluded that the scene w, s altogether without sym .*. tactic
interest, merely a display of lighting technique and "elo^c.nt
clothes". Thus, inruspici rusly, enc.d the second act of the
performance.
The third act of the new or: ngement be^an v;ith 11.3: Irvin^'s
Act Three, Scene One had been thrt of the ori^inrl text. In
Miss Anderson f s production Edward Stirlin,^ made the Frisr
"just the kind, genirl sort of wriest in t/hom the lovers
v/ould confide., .instead of the pedantic, uncomfortable
persons .ve S3 often given upon the stt^e". To this ^raiso in
The Stage may be adoec Scott's conDondation:
The lines of Sh.- kosperre have selcorn been more
beautifully rnc correctly spoken.
Stirling T.cis a veterra, the husband of I-irs Stirli,^, and
evidently possessed of the; elocutionary ,jo ors for lack of
•;hich younger actors v er-. Ire [uently chestisjd in the yicso.
In the lollov/ing scene his wii^s oeilor-n,-ac^ ofx'orec. ; n >ther
example of mature technique - Mary Anderson ci.et,criuec to
Percy Alien he: uusiries., ?t; si.o preteat-cc to refuse P