The Theatre

It is tolerably certain that Marie Lloyd has never read a word of Masefield, nor could her art gain anything from the study of his. Mr. Masefield, on the other hand, could gain considerably in the technique of the theatre by a critical examination of the greatest of comedienne’s rendering, as Mother Eve, of the couplets :

“ When once I ate an apple the whole universe was stirred,

Now girls can eat bananas and no one says a word.”