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Strictures On Public Amusements.
g . aring , and its intricacies so numerous . We shall content ourselves wifli offering hastil y a few observations exactly as they struck us during the performance . ° f The Cherokee is not merel y a vehicle for the music—there is an interest in the story , which . s not unhappily preserved throughout—considering the sacrifices tha . must be made to the Composer , no little ingenuity is requisite to carry on any plot at all . To carry it on with effect , is a difficulty surmountable but ' by a ral 5 fortune ot" » aut : or istbat he cannot Ins leThe ieces
r ' iT a , vary sty . p ot Cobb are all improved imitations of his first production—the same situations—t | , c same language—the same puns , and the same colouring . This is the defect of Colman , and in a lesser degree of Reynolds . In a different sense , it is also the defect of Storace . 1 he character of the revengeful Cherokee is verv boldly conceived , and the sentiments are suitable to the character . —The generous disposition of another Chief is judiciously contrasted , and serves to heighten the colouring of Malooio .
Young Average is not an original . We recollect him in numberless instances . —Mr . Cobb ' s official character has supplied him with ' the cant of the Customhouse and the City Merchants—this is not badly displayed in Average , who carries the terms of business along with him ; however situated or affected ¦—the neatest point is about selling out in the song on -matrimony . _ Sue it is a Quaker in habit only ; he might be any other character as we !!; there is something entertaining h in his being in the
enoug perpetually interrupted disclosure ol his passion to Fanny . The Music , which is both original and compiled , is exceedingly fine on the whole ; the finale of Ihe second act is , out and out , ' the . grandest composition we ever heard ; some pf the bars are too similar to . what we have before heard in the Pirates , & c . which is indeed an objection that may be made to several of the songs , particularly one pf Storace ' s , which is almost exactly the air of Bianchi , given to "Lovers that listen , & c . " Bland has
Mrs . a beautiful little ballad , which will assuredl y be very popular ; and Sedgwick an air in the first act , that deserves to be so— " Power unknown . " Kelly sung with infinite taste and precision ; and directed the se ' mi-chorusses , & c . in a very masterly manner ; the aria in the cave-was , in our opinion , the best ; there was no bravura worthy his talents . The acting of Barrymore in the Cherokee was as fine as could be ; and Mrs . Crouch never performed with so much irit and
sp energy during our remembrance . There is no better declamation on the stage than her concluding address from the cavern ; no elocution could be more irresistible . The Opera was abundantly applauded ; and will , no doubt , have a very successful time . The dresses of the Indians are as exact as possible ; and the liberality of the-Manager is in every respect conspicuous .
26 . MAGO AND DAGO , or HARLEQUIN THE HEHO , a new Pantomime , ivas presented tile first time at Covent Garden Theatre , composed , prepared , and directed by Mr . Lonsdale . The Dances are by Mr . Byrn . The subject is taken from Romance , and is as follows : Harlequin , being enamoured of the young mountain shepherdess Columbine , is , by the spells of Dpgo , a revengeful and odious rival , confined in the hollow of a rifted oak , where he is discovered by the good magician Mago , released , and presented with a magic sword , which has a new property of changing colour at the approach of danger : under this he
powerful protection openly defies the guilty plots of Dago . After many unlieard-of rencontres , pursuits , and escapes , Harlequin at length triumphs over his opponent , who then repenting of his evil projects , is restored to the ' friendship of his brother ; and , thus reconciled , Mago ancl Dago join in rewarding the good and virtuous . The Vocal Characters are by Messrs . Bernard , Gray , Street , Linton , and Mrs . Martyr . Harlequin Mr . Byrn , Clovm Mr . Folfett , Dago Mr . Farley , Mago Mr . Rifffiardson , Father to Columbine Mr . Hawtin , Zanny Mr . Simmons , and Columbine Madame Rossi . " ' "
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Strictures On Public Amusements.
g . aring , and its intricacies so numerous . We shall content ourselves wifli offering hastil y a few observations exactly as they struck us during the performance . ° f The Cherokee is not merel y a vehicle for the music—there is an interest in the story , which . s not unhappily preserved throughout—considering the sacrifices tha . must be made to the Composer , no little ingenuity is requisite to carry on any plot at all . To carry it on with effect , is a difficulty surmountable but ' by a ral 5 fortune ot" » aut : or istbat he cannot Ins leThe ieces
r ' iT a , vary sty . p ot Cobb are all improved imitations of his first production—the same situations—t | , c same language—the same puns , and the same colouring . This is the defect of Colman , and in a lesser degree of Reynolds . In a different sense , it is also the defect of Storace . 1 he character of the revengeful Cherokee is verv boldly conceived , and the sentiments are suitable to the character . —The generous disposition of another Chief is judiciously contrasted , and serves to heighten the colouring of Malooio .
Young Average is not an original . We recollect him in numberless instances . —Mr . Cobb ' s official character has supplied him with ' the cant of the Customhouse and the City Merchants—this is not badly displayed in Average , who carries the terms of business along with him ; however situated or affected ¦—the neatest point is about selling out in the song on -matrimony . _ Sue it is a Quaker in habit only ; he might be any other character as we !!; there is something entertaining h in his being in the
enoug perpetually interrupted disclosure ol his passion to Fanny . The Music , which is both original and compiled , is exceedingly fine on the whole ; the finale of Ihe second act is , out and out , ' the . grandest composition we ever heard ; some pf the bars are too similar to . what we have before heard in the Pirates , & c . which is indeed an objection that may be made to several of the songs , particularly one pf Storace ' s , which is almost exactly the air of Bianchi , given to "Lovers that listen , & c . " Bland has
Mrs . a beautiful little ballad , which will assuredl y be very popular ; and Sedgwick an air in the first act , that deserves to be so— " Power unknown . " Kelly sung with infinite taste and precision ; and directed the se ' mi-chorusses , & c . in a very masterly manner ; the aria in the cave-was , in our opinion , the best ; there was no bravura worthy his talents . The acting of Barrymore in the Cherokee was as fine as could be ; and Mrs . Crouch never performed with so much irit and
sp energy during our remembrance . There is no better declamation on the stage than her concluding address from the cavern ; no elocution could be more irresistible . The Opera was abundantly applauded ; and will , no doubt , have a very successful time . The dresses of the Indians are as exact as possible ; and the liberality of the-Manager is in every respect conspicuous .
26 . MAGO AND DAGO , or HARLEQUIN THE HEHO , a new Pantomime , ivas presented tile first time at Covent Garden Theatre , composed , prepared , and directed by Mr . Lonsdale . The Dances are by Mr . Byrn . The subject is taken from Romance , and is as follows : Harlequin , being enamoured of the young mountain shepherdess Columbine , is , by the spells of Dpgo , a revengeful and odious rival , confined in the hollow of a rifted oak , where he is discovered by the good magician Mago , released , and presented with a magic sword , which has a new property of changing colour at the approach of danger : under this he
powerful protection openly defies the guilty plots of Dago . After many unlieard-of rencontres , pursuits , and escapes , Harlequin at length triumphs over his opponent , who then repenting of his evil projects , is restored to the ' friendship of his brother ; and , thus reconciled , Mago ancl Dago join in rewarding the good and virtuous . The Vocal Characters are by Messrs . Bernard , Gray , Street , Linton , and Mrs . Martyr . Harlequin Mr . Byrn , Clovm Mr . Folfett , Dago Mr . Farley , Mago Mr . Rifffiardson , Father to Columbine Mr . Hawtin , Zanny Mr . Simmons , and Columbine Madame Rossi . " ' "