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Excerpt from The Works of Stanley Houghton, Vol. 1 of 3
Miss glossop-harris was the Juliet and Mr. Eugene Wellesley the Romeo and these two, if they did not bring to their physical fitness for their parts a perfect technical equipment, are at least practised actors, and possess a control over their emotions and tempera ments that is quite sufficient for all practical purposes. The balcony scene was played charmingly, with the most engaging fragrance and simplicity; the blank verse was spoken not only as if it meant something, but as if the speakers were actually thinking about what it meant, not measuring off so many lengths of figured verbiage. Miss Harris was fresh and limpid as spring water, and Mr. Wellesley was really passionate and not sentimental. Later on both of these players gave ampler proofs of the variety and scope of their powers in more trying passages, and each touched a high level of austerity and spareness in the scene of the tomb.
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