The play was delightfully, as well as sympathetically, acted, and
usually with full comprehension ; the dresses were a feast to the eye, and the lines were well delivered. Miss Sybil Thorndike was interesting as the witch: she is too groat an artist ever to be anything but that, but in the opinion of the present writer— not " Tarn "—she missed the true line of dramatic interpreta- tion. Mother Sawyer should not have been half so ragged, half so bent or crooked, nor have had half so black a face. She should have been upright, dressed all in black, wasted by her evil passions, but not a starveling. She should have been colder, more bitter, less noisy, and therefore much more terrible. Remember, the poet put his best blank verse into her mouth, which points to her acquiring a wicked majesty, not mere degradation, from her intimacy with the Lords of Hell. The Devil-Dog was quite the gentleman, as he should be. The actin* of Miss Edith Evans as Anne Ratcliffe the countrywoman run mad was awful and superb.
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