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Strictures On Public Amusements.
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
- . December 20 , 1794-AT Drury-lane Theatre was presented a' new Comic Opera , entitled THE CHEROKSS , of which the following was the Dramatis Person * : BRITISH . Colonel Blandford , - - Mr . KELLY . Henry , - Master WELSH .
Office / ,. - - - - Mr . COOKE . Average , - - - Mr . HoixiNoswofiTH . Jack Average , : - - Mr . BANNISTER , jun . Kamble , - - - Mr . D . ICNI . M . Serjeant Bluster , - - - Mr . BAKNISTEK . Jeremy , . - - - - Mr . SUETT . Zilipha , - - - - Mrs . CROUCH . Eleanor , - - - Signora STORAGE . Fanny , - - " ' - - Miss LEAKE . . Winifred , - - - MI-S . BLASD .
.. . . INDIANS . .. .... Malooko ,. ^ - - ¦ - Mr . BARRYMORE , Zamorin , - -. - Mr . C . KEMELE . Ontayo , . ' .- ¦ - - Mr . SEDGWICK . Patowmac , - - Mr . CAULKIELD . . - Indian , , . - ..-. ¦ - Mr . P KIILIMOJIE . . Bartheca ,,. - .- - Mrs . B RAMWELL .
THE FABLE IS . AS FOLLOW ^ :, Colonel Blandford , an English officer , who . immediately after his marriage is , by family misfortunes , separated from his wife , is ordered on . service to America After his departure , accumulated distresses oblige Ins wife ; with her infant son , to quit England , and follow him . On their arrival in America , tney are seized bv the Indians , and carried up the country . with the Indiantakes lace at the settlement where Blandford
A treaty s p very has the chief command ; and his wife ( known there by her Indian name Zilipha ) is suffered to accompany the Indian Chief , Patowmac , to the settlement . Malooko , the Chief of the Cherokees , falls in love with Zilipha ; and , in order to form a pi etence for gaining possession of her , he quarrels with the English , and their ally , Patowmac . . The underplot of the Piece arises from the following circumstances : Average , a merchant of London , brings with him to America his nephew Jav .-. who intended for matrimonial union
Average , and his daughter Eleanor , are a ; but who , though they really love each other , do not know their own mines At this period the opera opens . The various incidents which form the plot tend to the mutual discovery of Blandford and Zilipha ; the punishment and death of the perfidious Malooko , and the union of Jack Average and Eleanor . , . Mr . Cobb is the avowed author of The Cherokee . It is equal in merit to the best of his pieces . Criticism has nothing to do with any of them . To analyze amodern Opera would be a task of endless utility , its incongruities are so I 2
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Strictures On Public Amusements.
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
- . December 20 , 1794-AT Drury-lane Theatre was presented a' new Comic Opera , entitled THE CHEROKSS , of which the following was the Dramatis Person * : BRITISH . Colonel Blandford , - - Mr . KELLY . Henry , - Master WELSH .
Office / ,. - - - - Mr . COOKE . Average , - - - Mr . HoixiNoswofiTH . Jack Average , : - - Mr . BANNISTER , jun . Kamble , - - - Mr . D . ICNI . M . Serjeant Bluster , - - - Mr . BAKNISTEK . Jeremy , . - - - - Mr . SUETT . Zilipha , - - - - Mrs . CROUCH . Eleanor , - - - Signora STORAGE . Fanny , - - " ' - - Miss LEAKE . . Winifred , - - - MI-S . BLASD .
.. . . INDIANS . .. .... Malooko ,. ^ - - ¦ - Mr . BARRYMORE , Zamorin , - -. - Mr . C . KEMELE . Ontayo , . ' .- ¦ - - Mr . SEDGWICK . Patowmac , - - Mr . CAULKIELD . . - Indian , , . - ..-. ¦ - Mr . P KIILIMOJIE . . Bartheca ,,. - .- - Mrs . B RAMWELL .
THE FABLE IS . AS FOLLOW ^ :, Colonel Blandford , an English officer , who . immediately after his marriage is , by family misfortunes , separated from his wife , is ordered on . service to America After his departure , accumulated distresses oblige Ins wife ; with her infant son , to quit England , and follow him . On their arrival in America , tney are seized bv the Indians , and carried up the country . with the Indiantakes lace at the settlement where Blandford
A treaty s p very has the chief command ; and his wife ( known there by her Indian name Zilipha ) is suffered to accompany the Indian Chief , Patowmac , to the settlement . Malooko , the Chief of the Cherokees , falls in love with Zilipha ; and , in order to form a pi etence for gaining possession of her , he quarrels with the English , and their ally , Patowmac . . The underplot of the Piece arises from the following circumstances : Average , a merchant of London , brings with him to America his nephew Jav .-. who intended for matrimonial union
Average , and his daughter Eleanor , are a ; but who , though they really love each other , do not know their own mines At this period the opera opens . The various incidents which form the plot tend to the mutual discovery of Blandford and Zilipha ; the punishment and death of the perfidious Malooko , and the union of Jack Average and Eleanor . , . Mr . Cobb is the avowed author of The Cherokee . It is equal in merit to the best of his pieces . Criticism has nothing to do with any of them . To analyze amodern Opera would be a task of endless utility , its incongruities are so I 2