"He certainly was a good reader and splendidly thrilling and stormy and tragic but it was a damage to me because I have never since been able to read Shakespeare in a calm and sane way. I cannot rid it of his explosive interlardings they break in everywhere with their irrelevant "What in hell are you up to now! pull her down! more! more! there now steady as you go" and the other disorganizing interruptions that were always leaping from his mouth. When I read Shakespeare now I can hear them as plainly as I did in that long-departed time fifty-one years ago. I never regarded Ealer's readings as educational. Indeed they were a detriment to me."