He appeared upon the scene clad in the conventional solid armour of the theatre, with over all a gray gauze veil, as stiff as buckram, thrown about him.

Mr.Boaden describes his horror and astonishment at the misconception.

It had been intended that the gauze, stretched on a frame, should cover a portal of the scene, and that the figure of the spectre should be seen dimly through it.

But even then the contour of Thompson was found very inappropriate to a phantom.

It was necessary to select for the part an actor of a slighter and taller form.