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NDER this head there is not much to 
J sayat present—at least not much that 
it is Necessary ‘should be said. Criticism, in 
this department, may repose itself during 
the'summer months, when, in general, we 
go to the theatres only for that lighter spe- 
cies of amusement,’ of which mirth is the 
endand laughter the best applause. 
‘The Haymarker has not produced so 
much novelty of late as at the commence- 
ment of the season; but it has produced 
what the proprietor will think much better 
—full houses, and, occasionally, very elegant 
_ ones—which might indeed be justly expected 
from the strength of the comic corps; Ma- 
dame Vestris, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. 
C. Jones, and Mrs. Davison ; Liston, Har- 
ley, Vining, and Farren (to say nothing of 
their seconders), furnish a bill of fare 
(especially when produced together, as 
sometimes they are, or at least almost all 
of them in one night,) which cannot fail of 
attraction. The last-named of these has 
played once or twice during the month, in 
the Clandestine Marriage, his very best 
character, Lord Ogleby—of which he is 
certainly the best representative we have 
seen since the days of the original, Tom 
King. The new comedy, in three acts, called 
Quite Correct, taken, with little deviation, 
from a story in ‘‘ Sayings and Doings,” 
and produced here on the 29th of July, 
and which was so successful as to have a 
constant nightly run for three or four weeks, 
not only gave Liston, in the “quite cor- 
rect”’ landlord of theImperial Hotel, Brigh- 
ton, an opportunity (so long as he had 
steadiness to avail himself of it) of pro- 
ducing the height of comic effect, witheut 
descending to buffoonery ; but, while it ex- 
hibited Mrs. Glover and Mrs. Davison, as 
Lady Amelia Milford and Mrs. Rosemore, 
respectively, in their best light—gave to 
Vining and little Miss P..Glover, as Sir 
Harry, Dartford and. Maria Rosemore, an 
opportunity of presenting us with one of the 
most.affecting and best sustained scenes. of 
acting we almosteverremember on the stage. 
Of Vining, we early formed a favourable 
opinion; and we have. traced the progress 
of his improvement with considerable plea- 
sure; but he burst upon us, in this in- 
stance, with a,power, and a. semblance of 
natural and strongly -agitating . emotion, 
which surpassed our most favourable ‘ex- 
pectations, and indicated a capability of a 
much higher species of acting than we had 
ever ‘given him credit for; while Miss 
Glover was equally interesting by the na- 
tural simplicity of her pathos. 
. Aug. 9th: us, for the first’ time, 
Madame is as Lady Contest, in The 
Weddiny Day; whicly’ she «played with 
admirable effect, to Farren’s searcely “less 
excellent Sir Adam. The crabbed auste- 
Montuty Mac. No. 414. 
rity arid peevishness' gf this charactef’suits 
the hard style of this actor, and the’ only 
part in which he fails, is in giving’ sufficient 
depth of colouring to that sudden’ revul- - 
sion of feeling produced by the sudden: ap- 
pearance of that damper of all his ex- 
pected joys, his old lamented wife, whom 
he had so pathetically hoped’ had been ten 
years buried in the ocean. But these . 
complete and permanent transitions of feel- 
ing, from long-cherished hopes to remedi- 
less disappointment, are scarcely ever ex- 
hibited with any tolerable fidelity on the 
stage. The Duke of Cambridge was ex- 
pected, —a box was reserved for him, 
and an assemblage of high fashion was 
there to grace his reception; and the’ per- 
formances were unreasonably delayed “in 
waiting for him: but his Royal Highnéss 
never came. Some of the high fashionables 
began to out-talk the actors ; but the John 
Bullism of the audience undertook to teach 
them better manners, and quickly put them 
to silence. 
Quite Correct and Midas kept their con- 
stant grounds, as first and second pieces, 
for a long time ; but for a third we hail, on 
the 10th, “ The Sleeping Draught,’ yven- 
dered irresistibly laughable by Harley’s 
Popolino.  Sheridan’s Critic’ has ‘also 
been repeatedly acted here; but our re- 
‘membrance of how it used originally to be 
acted, cry out to us to forbear all animad- 
version, 
On the 24th, a new comedy (so it is 
called) of three acts, Roses and Thorns, or 
Two Houses under one Roof, was pro- 
duced ; the humour of which consists in 
the’ contrast of two half-brothers, Sir Hi- 
lary Heartsease (Mr. Liston), who has 
laughed himself fat, ‘and continues to laugh 
at every mischance that befals him; and 
Sir Valentine Verjuice (Mr. Farren), an old 
grumbling, peevish, petulant admiral, who 
can find but “two seasons in the year—the 
season of dust, and the season of mud. 
When you are not choaked with the one, 
you are splashed up to the ears with the 
other.”” ‘These contrariés hold their joint 
property on condition of living under the 
same roof; to evade some of the incon- 
veniences of which, they run up a party- 
wall through the middle of the house. 
To thicken the embarrassment, Sir Hilary 
has a daughter, Julia Hearlsease (Mrs. T. 
Hill), whose fortune, £40,000, depends 
upon fier marrying with the joint consent 
of her father and uncle. They have, however, 
a nephew, Frederick Fitzalwyn (Mr. Nin- 
ing), and they agree that he shall marry her. 
But the young couple have placed their 
affections otherwise—Julia, On her tttor 
Blandcour (Mr. Raymond), a protegée of 
her father’s;* and -J*rederick, ~tipon Rosa 
Appleton, whom he has foreibly run away 
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