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her accepting a diminished salary. This is idle, of course, she took all 

 slie could get. 



The best melodrame of the season has been produced at Drury-lane, 

 entitled " The Brigand," got up by ]Mr. Planche. 



Till the new comedy, by Lord Glengall, appears, we must do wliat 

 we can with our old ones. O'Keefe's " Wild Oats" has been played 

 with the whole comic force of the house. O'Keefe's talent was oddity, 

 and his sole object was, to gather, into one piece, as many improbable 

 characters as he could compel into one plot. Thus he has a dramatic 

 and sentimental quaker heiress, a courting quaker in love with the cham- 

 bermaids, and so forth. The Old Admiral and John Dory, or Uncle Tohij and 

 Corporal Trim, in blue clothes, were the clap-trap characters of the time. 

 But the play is, on tlie whole, lively. Jones was the Bover, and nothing 

 could be better played. He was at once the gentleman and the stroller, and 

 gay,- graceful, and popular throughout. Some of the papers objected to his 

 dress ; but nothing could be more suitable. His first costume is that of a 

 man walking on the road, and it was remarkably neat and appropriate. 

 His second was an uniform, which Bover says he "took out of his stage- 

 trunk, and which he had worn in the part of Captain Plume." Lewis, the 

 original Bover, always wore an uniform, as being more showy than the 

 otlier dresses of the time. In fact, in those matters, as in others, we may 

 always rely on the good sense and perfect theatrical knowledge of this 

 actor. Piliss Mordaunt played Ladtj Amaranth very cleverly, and may 

 be looked to as a valuable accession to the powerful comic corps of this 

 house. Liston was very pleasant without any extravagance j and Mrs. 

 Orger, who fats rapidly, was the most jovial of chambermaids. 



The Theatre, Tottenham Street, which has for a long period been 

 totally lost sight of by the fashionable world, is about to be rescued 

 from obscurity, and to present a claim to patronage and popularity, 

 \vhich, from its advantageous situation, as the westernmost theatre in the 

 metropolis, it is peculiarly calculated to obtain, and which its company, 

 as announced, bids fair to secure. The persons immediately concerned 

 in the speculation are, Messrs. Alexander Lee, Chapman, and Melrose ; 

 and the performers already engaged (in addition to the above) are 

 Messrs. P. Farren (stage manager), Vining, Williams, Hammerton Ross, 

 Andrews, Simon (of the King's Theatre, ballet master,) &c. ; Mrs.Way- 

 lett, ]\Irs. T. Hill, JMiss A. Tree, Miss L. Jarman, Mrs. Tayleure, Miss 

 Absolon, Miss Butline, &c. It has already opened with a piece by 

 ]Mr. Lunn, which we are glad to say, for the sake of a very ingenious 

 writer and estimable man, has been received with great applause. 



Boildeau's " Les Deux Nuits" has been sent over to Covent Garden 

 by Bishop, who is, unluckily, throwing away his talents and time in 

 Paris. He ought to return to this country, forget that Weber and 

 Rossini ever existed, forswear boring himself and the world with the 

 fi'ipperies of French music, and make a real English opera. No man 

 could do it better ; for the composer of tlie " Miller and his Men," and 

 " Guy Manncring," is the composer of two of the prettiest operas in the 

 language. We give this advice to Bishop with sincerity, and shall 

 be glad to see him in his proper place at the head of our Opera Stage 

 again. 



JMrs. Granby Calcraft is attacked in the Ecclesiastical Courts by her 

 husband. The story goes, tliat she solicits a divorce ; and the wits say, 

 tiiat let the wind blow in what quarter it will, she can find " a har- 

 bour, or 



