Lovers of Jane Austen have their special favourites, 1, may be accurate to say, however, that "Pride oni Prejudice" carries most support and 4 It also appeals to many readers who otherwise are not properly imbued with the Austen spirit. "Now, at last, the' stage has. attempted to bring "Pride and "Prejudice" before the footlights. At St, James's Thoatee last_month, Miss Helen Jerome's dramatized version of the novel was presented with apparent success. The bart of the altogether delightful Elizabeth was taken by Miss Cella Johnson of "The Wind and the! Rain' fame, and the result wa wholly satisfactory according 0 the rite of "The Times" who rejoiced to see a portrait "so alive, 30 unforced, s0 intelligent and unaffected." To those who revel In the novel "and know something of present-day players, the casting seems to have been admirably done, for. in addition to Miss Johnson, It Included Mr. Athole Stewart in the part of Mr. Bonnet, Miss Dorothy Hyson as Jane, Miss "Barbara Everest os Mrs, Bennet and Miss Eva Moore as Lady Catherine de Burgh. The difficulties of bringing on to the stage the de cate sublictics of Jane Austen characterization were not entirely overcome, but as Mr, Stewart and Miss Johnson both were adjudged to have hit the mark, the loss of quality certain other characters will not have been greatly deplored, For Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth really set the note, Tt is to be hoped thet the playwright overcome the problem of that scene in which D'Arey proposes, It has comparatively ttle dialogue and is dependent entirely on the author's magical gift of description. It would be sad if one of the most characteristic passages In the novel suffered in the transfer to the stage
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