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few stage-directions, and some cues for
After the short conversrition be two en ACtr.w. and Orlando,
which, in the words of ho Morning' Post (26 January) "cir! not
at once arrest attention", tho opening of the cocond scene
displayed the first fully-set ; t; , o- licture, "a mediaeval
castle, overlooking a wide expanse of n.- rk, and with a spacious
courtyard, whereiu the wrestling foasms an attractive item in
a holiday pageant". A number of criticc testified to the
impression of solidity .niven by the castle aot, although The
Pall Mall Gazette found it "a little stiff in effect" (26
January). In The Illustrated porting, and Dramatic Nows the
Captious Critic lived up to Me sobriquet:
The r ' : ike*s Palr-cc, erected by ?1r "Perking, i@ an
unmistokocble French chr.-t reau t though I fancy of
date -posterior to tha't of Charles the Victorious.
But in the raattor of thrt etntuc of young Tan
Cu iid an? its --icder. L,al. Is it to bo .;cce;otcd as
a clo; :;ic relic ^reserved with unv/onteO cr i*e from
the hande of pious iconoclaots? Surely, no mediaeval
chisel could ii,-.:vo fashioned it.
(7 February)
Tlie Times noted ..ith approval the presence of a.'.'large,
quaintly-dressed niofe of rustics" r,t the vvre^tlin/ inr.tch, but
gave no incliCL.tion as to the form taken by the "licta", or
in what way they differed from the ucuol boxi:ir-rin ;:> Illuotrrtions
in The Illustrated London ITews and clDowhcre ohov/
Chr.rles and Orlando wrestling, but do not ;jhow l. :oir ;;un-oundincr:
v ith --ny rirccicion. >?ho Crptiouo Critic, remembering Iiis
paper'c title, diLCu:-sed the ..v.tch in e-iortin7 terms, coirr^ri^.g
OrlcTKlo's air- culouc -.-'in to the occasion upon which little
uici:erby of Carlisle lire crosrj-bu!; cocked "the e.i ant Ton Poolcy"
hif;h into the air some twelve ye.-: re: -:ro at tlie A.^ricultar. 1
ifall. Unfortim. .tely tho ineqr.ality in ohysicue between ICendal
and Vonion robbed Orlando^ ciccoac of any voriDi ilitudo, and
the winner made co 'injr- elo'nnnt.'^ry errors airly i*/_ tae bout
UM _ . ,
u rcviov/r-rn, -oortir^ or otherwice, '..ere /lco.i\mc©d. —L
. Po.^.t. found the matc-i entirely c.-ecible, but -,;a£j alone
in its opini >'--•
TUG io: t i.mortant bucineoo of the act w; s rioca