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Rh To quote Mr. Arliss again, and I know no better authority:

Or as William Winter wrote of Booth:

"He left nothing to chance. There was no heedless, accidental quality in his art. There was neither hesitation, uncertainty, excess nor error. The perfection of his acting lay in the perfect control that he exercised over his powers—his complete understanding of himself, his minute and thorough perception of cause and effect on the stage, and his consummate skill in deducing the one from the other. He acted with the ease that makes the observer oblivious of the effort and the skill which alone can produce such effects of illusion and enjoyment.

"He did not adopt the foolish theory that the true art of acting consists in doing upon the stage exactly what people do in actual life. He