It would be superb--I think so, at least--in the hands of an actress who really understood her business; but Miss Bretherton will make it one long stagey scream, without any modulation, any shades, any delicacy.

It drives one wild to think of it.

And yet how, in the name of fortune, am I to get out of it ?' 'You had thought,' said Kendal, 'I remember, of Mrs.Pearson for the heroine.' 'Yes; I should have tried her.

She is not first-rate, but at least she is intelligent; she understands something of what you want in a part like that.

But for poor Isabel Bretherton, and those about her, the great points in the play will be that she will have long speeches and be able to wear "medieval" dresses! I don't suppose she ever heard of Aragon in her life.