at the Savoy provides no better opportunities for Mr. Forbes Robertson and Miss Gertrude Elliott in my estimation, though in America it was much appreciated and drew huge houses. I think it is Mr. Bernard Shaw's St attempt at an histor if he had consulted he might have discovered that water was not the drink of the (or was it?) and that they did not discourse about old gentlemen and new women and such like things in the way we do now. As a matter of fact he has taken the period and dress of B.C. 43 and written round in a play of 1907. Wide-wake Americans understood and appreciated it, but I am afraid we here have yet much to learn. I for one much prefer Mr. Forbes Robortson's Hamlet. to his Caesar and Miss Elliott is most charming in that very modern comedy Mice and Men".
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