Fritz Leiber did not muff his production of Othello. He played an earnest, straightforward Iago, plainly actuated by the motives of desire and jealousy as expounded in English 2, and with no suggestion of satanic depths to his character, except perhaps at the end where he maintained an admirably unrepentant and sinister smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many a Pullman berth in his time. It was perhaps to attain more dignity that he thundered and declaimed his lines, with sweeping gestures; but he did it well, and in his scenes with Desdemona he was all simple sincerity.

Ethel Taylor in this role achieved no heights, but allowed her light to be extinguished gracefully; Virginia Bronson as Emilia was excellent, and if Brabantio recited his lines as if preparing for an examination, Cassio and Roderigo were fully adequate. The production was was both rich and smooth, with settings at once satisfying and suggestive, and with no long waits between them such as often dull the interest of Shakespeare. Mr. Leiber offers the most painless method of reviewing the important play.