as a guest to hear his Mahomet. H
has the opportunity to show himself
shrewder than the emissaries of the
Kins, who would entrap him. Hes u
presumably in ever situation a wit who |
gets the beat of his adversaries even.
when it occasionally looks up if he might ,
be trapped hy so much brilliancy.
Mile.. Clairon is not the only celebrity ,
of the day?the authors have arbttrar- |
ilv set on a day in June in 1785 as the
time of the play, but other historical ,
figures appear in the Hat of characters, i
Yet none is naturally so ubiqultuous as
Voltaire..
Mr. Daly in a Ions gray -wis and a
dressing gown dominated every scene, j
He was rarely off the stage. He ha* (
to speak nearly every line in the play. ,
Yet he delivered them in a dry staccato
and with such effect that after the sec
ond act he had to bring the two authors
on the stage. They smiled and bowed
and locked very young. yet after all. ,
not nearly so young as their play ?
Airs. Carlotta -Monterey was a love- |
lv embodiment of Clairon lor|g "e"
fore she hart simultaneously de StaM
and the rheumatism in her Unee whlcn
seriouslv interfered with la vie galant'
even at that time. I-cslie Austin. George
Le Guerre. Miss Jane Wheatley ani
Miss Marguerite Forrest were ^some o.
the vivid figures in "Voltaire," which,
after all, would seem much m>ro
academic than human.
\rthur Hopkins had done every thing
to make the pla> quite as attractive as
his young visitors to the Flymoui
Theater had meant it should be. Th
drawing room of a chateu at FcrncN
was very picturesquely realised hi
Robert Kdmond Jones.
