. Mr. GERALD DU MAURIER.
_Sir Nevil Moreton, Bart._ ... Mr. FRANKLIN DYALL.]
Mr. GERALD DU MAURIER was the life and soul of the play, which would have
been a dullish business without him. His reappearances were always hailed
as a joyous relief to the prevailing depression. Even _Dean Carey_--most
delightful in the person of Mr. GILBERT HARE--became at one time a gloomy
Dean; and Miss LILIAN BRAITHWAITE, who played very tenderly in the part of
_Mrs. Westonry_ (the lady who had lost her reputation), could not hope to
be very entertaining with her reminiscences of a lover whom we had never
had the pleasure of meeting.
_Mrs. Audley_ again (treated naturally and with a pleasant artlessness by
Miss EMILY BROOKE) did not take very kindly to the conquest of her scruples
and gave little suggestion of the rapture of surrender. Further, the
authors paid a poor compliment to English gentlemen by providing the
Captain with a dull boor for his rival. The contrast was a little too
patent. Even so Mr. FRANKLIN DYALL might perhaps have made the _role_ of
_Sir Nevil Moreton_ appear a little less impossible. But, however good he
may be in character parts or where melodrama is indicated, he never allowed
us to mistake him for a British Baronet. The only person (apart from _le
Briquet_) who contributed nothing to the general gloom was the Dean's wife,
played with the most attractive grace and humour by Miss NINA BOUCICAULT.
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