O'Farrell, combined with her admirably. ' He is, perhaps, a little too noisy in the second act but the part was well conceived and convincingly played. The greatest success, however, next to Miss Tempest's was that of Mr. Ashton Jarry as the Professor. It is, of cause, a very sympathetic part. But even so it was most attractively played. In contrast Miss Dorothy Hamilton as Mrs. Ferguson had a thoroughly unpopular part and did remarkably well wita it. Mr. Roger Barry was rather too much of a caricature of the elderly society butterfly he was playing to carry much conviction. But the fault is to a large extent the author's. Mr. Millard as the lawyer and Miss Doris Gilham as the professor's wife did what they had to do well, and a special word of praise must be given to "the patient" of Mr. Kyrie Sylvaney.
The much written-about curtain scenery deserves mention. It is original and very effective presenting altogether a much better idea of wealthy interiors than the conventional scenery on which travelling companies usually have to depend.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.