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_.
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A Coincidence.
_Thursday._--The Kaiser distributes 30,000 iron crosses.
_Friday._--Great Britain declares pig-iron contraband of war.
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"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.
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