Strindberg's " Miss Julie " is described as the "
meat-dish " in the triple bill that opened at the Westminster Theatre On Monday, the " cocktail " being a valueless trifle by Schnitzler, and the savoury Barrie's " The Will," which should be, and now will be, very much better known than it is. But while Strindberg may be meat he is not meat for all palates, and the psychology of " Miss Julie "—in which the footman, engaged to the cook, becomes his master's daughter's lover—if subtle, is also sometimes strained. The present performance provides a triumph for Ruth Lodge, whose interpretation of a supremely difficult part was beyond criticism—except perhaps when the author once or twice imposes a too sudden transition from black despair to tragic declamation. Here is a young actress of whom much more will certainly be heard. Her father, Mr. Thomas Lodge, was till a year or so ago one of the three British members of the Governing Commission of Newfoundland.
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