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F.H. K c din, as Polixenes, \vr-s better-looking but hie acting
was "rather he vy and lifeless" (12 -cptoraber).
The three re ones which rarde up ' :ioo Andernon's ceeond
act air not elicit much comment. The ^oming r: o:;t noted thr.t
"sevor 1 titters" were raired by "the careless mrnner in
whicli tlie eloquent Paulina had dis>>or,ed of the imVnt •. fter
her crnh. tic r^-ncrls on its bclv If to the vindictive fnthor",
and that the abandonment of Perdita on the cea cor.ot lo.ot
some of its effect b/ the child's beinr- "too n, 1 - bly a doll,
a ;iorr,cl of unreality in the mid. t of elaborate rer licra". The
scene of !"Jf?ulin;i*s upbraiding was cut by a half of it lines,
and in the; abbreviated III.3 no bear pursued Anti'onur,. tlaic
omission v/ns ;;.onornlly v;e corned, b:it some exprerjoec doubts
concerning the onic.,rjio.'i of Time, ao Choruo* Cli. rles Ke-Lii,
who was t.:ou;;ht to h:'.ve erred in ;..llov:i:r the bear to cii^r-e
Anti;;o:iuo, had r.u'.cle a splendid spectacular tableau out of Time,
and I/Iiss Anderson had riissed a "le^itiriate" O'^ortmiity for
displaj^. The r.Iiort scene in -.liich Cloor-ienes and "'ion diccusc
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