Volume 147 — EPITHETS FOR ACTORS.
Reading edition
The dramatic critic of The Daily Chronicle, speaking of the first performance of Mameena, observes, "Mr. Oscar Asche, jutting, preponderant and softly corrugated, was a splendid Zulu chief."
Following this distinguished example, we have endeavoured to express the histrionic inwardness of some of our leading actors and actresses on similar lines:—
Sir George Alexander, dolicocephalic, fimbriated and supra-lapsarian, interpreted the rôle of the archdeacon with consummate skill.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, goliardic, tarantulated and pontostomatous, invested the character of the great financier with a fluorescent charm.
Mr. Ainley, prognathous, salicylic and partially oxydised, made a superb lover.
Miss Gladys Cooper, lambent, pyramidal and turturine, fully realized the polyphonic cajoleries of Seraphina.
A Coincidence.
Thursday.—The Kaiser distributes 30,000 iron crosses.
Friday.—Great Britain declares pig-iron contraband of war.
"Members of the Tooloona Rifle Club have collected 1,000 fat sheep as a gift to the British troops. The price of butter has been reduced to £4 per ton, and the wheels of the export trade will be immediately set in motion."
Daily Chronicle.
How fortunate that the price of lubrication fell just in time.