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not seek to concentrate attention fji^nly unon
an erotic fool, he magnified his ori in, 1 and
i-iv-sted it v.lth a 'lory th t in t:.ctu-al life it
never ooocerrjefl.
Sarch Bor:iii;,rdt f 3 T>or:;:V>rmanoe, by distinct contract, was
"effrontery" and depravity, r-.nrinklod over with r;ev/r,awc",
a feet which Winter attributed not merely to the ccorr.ved
o.'^,.;r.., but to the actress's lu bitual "metallic insincerity
of f cling blended ,ith '-in.ocharine monotony of oxr.re^ion".
Pron a n:ja v/h.j thought Ada ,r.h;ji a -uocc-sful : ?osalind because
she was in fc\ctnr;l personality i^ntie-l -vit.ii the fictional
charge',>or, this is not surpricin/r .
.TO ouitrble representative of Cleopatra p.rnesrcd in
London before the :v-•'c till ^±tturbo0
by the t.' blop.u c'.irtai-is v.iiich v/ero lovvered between the :..cc-neo
(10 July !• 37). Archer felt tho.t Calvert bed. u-CM-bcr, to
Irvin^'L. i'.uluoncc, sacrificing ..Iialnes-oeLire to ;..p?ct.-de and
incidental nu-..»ic. The production '.•-•e exce^rsivcly o -cratic,
and at tir;ier. rcniiiiiocent of . i. a:
..ven Cloooatra'c "bucinecs" v/.-.-o tincd to the
rr/Uoic, caid one ,,0 au so, rccly hr.vo fcceu
inclined to ch^.nt iior vorc-.:., had broken out into
a .^ocit, tive and ria".