Now, thank goodness, we have broken away to acclaim actors who, without reverting to strut and bellow, are playing with a heartening drive and a mingling of subtlety and power ; who give to our stage its proper flash, its kindling glow ; and who make of the theatre more than a home for the "gilded gear," the rowdier ram-jams, and the "dim, moon-eyed fishes" that stare at them decorously.