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" History Of The Theatres Of London,
" HISTORY OF THE THEATRES OF LONDON ,
EXTRACTS FROM MR . OUITON ' s
FROM 1771 TO 1795 . " Just published .
MB . GARRICK . IN the year 1777 Mr . Garrick was desired to read a play before the king andqueen at Buckingham house in the manner of Mons . Le Texier , who had obtained great reputation by reading them , sitting at a table , and acting them as he went on . Mr . Garrick fixed upon his own farce of Lclbe , in which he introducedfor the occasion the character of an ungrateful Jew ; there were present the king queen , princess royal , duchess of Argyle , and one or two more ofthe ladies in
waiting ; but the coldness with which this select party heard him , so opposite to the applause he had always been used to on the stage , had such an effect upon him , as to prevent his exertions ; or , to use Mr . G . ' s own words in relating the circumstance , "it was , " said he , " as if they had thrown a wet blanket over me .
MR . KING APPOINTED DEPUTY MANAGER OF DRURY LANE THEATRE . THIS gentleman was received in his new character of acting manager ( Sept . 17 . ) with marks of peculiar esteem : on this occasion he came forward previous to the play , which was the Clandestine Marriage , to deliver a new serio-comic Dramatic Olio . A considerable time elapsed in congratulations on the part of the audience , and thanks on the part of the actor , before he was suffered to begin the address . It commenced with a parodon the speech of Othelloto the following
y , effect" Most potent , grave , and reverend critics , My very noble and approved good masters ; That I have ta'en the conduct of this old House , True , true—I am Manager , " & c . The old house was a sarcasm against the Managers of Covent Garden , who had stiled theirs
now the ne-. o house ; the parody was carried on to the ; passage that , " he would a round unvarnish'd tale deliver : " whereupon he requested permission to change his stile for blank verse , as heroics hobbled ungracefully on his tongue . Then , in an admirable vein of humour approaching the burlesque stile , he gave the supposed different opinions of various descriptions of persons , respecting his new undertaking . —A veteran lord in a fashionable circle , west of Drury , gives it as bh opinion , that the pupil and last friend of Mr . Garrick cannot act wrong in the situation of Manager ; and a citizen also declares his approbation , as he had
constantly paid regard to ihe main chance , and appeared three times a week on the Change . An alderman suspends his judgment , as he conceives the " Proof of the pudding is in the eating . " Such were the opinions of those before Ike-curtain , And now he proceeded to take a peep behind . The tragedians consider it as a very mournful omen of their dissolution , and conclude a very dire and doleful farewel to all their greatness , in another parody on Othello , — for now . " The tragic Hero ' s occupation ' s o ' er , " - VOL . VI . s
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
" History Of The Theatres Of London,
" HISTORY OF THE THEATRES OF LONDON ,
EXTRACTS FROM MR . OUITON ' s
FROM 1771 TO 1795 . " Just published .
MB . GARRICK . IN the year 1777 Mr . Garrick was desired to read a play before the king andqueen at Buckingham house in the manner of Mons . Le Texier , who had obtained great reputation by reading them , sitting at a table , and acting them as he went on . Mr . Garrick fixed upon his own farce of Lclbe , in which he introducedfor the occasion the character of an ungrateful Jew ; there were present the king queen , princess royal , duchess of Argyle , and one or two more ofthe ladies in
waiting ; but the coldness with which this select party heard him , so opposite to the applause he had always been used to on the stage , had such an effect upon him , as to prevent his exertions ; or , to use Mr . G . ' s own words in relating the circumstance , "it was , " said he , " as if they had thrown a wet blanket over me .
MR . KING APPOINTED DEPUTY MANAGER OF DRURY LANE THEATRE . THIS gentleman was received in his new character of acting manager ( Sept . 17 . ) with marks of peculiar esteem : on this occasion he came forward previous to the play , which was the Clandestine Marriage , to deliver a new serio-comic Dramatic Olio . A considerable time elapsed in congratulations on the part of the audience , and thanks on the part of the actor , before he was suffered to begin the address . It commenced with a parodon the speech of Othelloto the following
y , effect" Most potent , grave , and reverend critics , My very noble and approved good masters ; That I have ta'en the conduct of this old House , True , true—I am Manager , " & c . The old house was a sarcasm against the Managers of Covent Garden , who had stiled theirs
now the ne-. o house ; the parody was carried on to the ; passage that , " he would a round unvarnish'd tale deliver : " whereupon he requested permission to change his stile for blank verse , as heroics hobbled ungracefully on his tongue . Then , in an admirable vein of humour approaching the burlesque stile , he gave the supposed different opinions of various descriptions of persons , respecting his new undertaking . —A veteran lord in a fashionable circle , west of Drury , gives it as bh opinion , that the pupil and last friend of Mr . Garrick cannot act wrong in the situation of Manager ; and a citizen also declares his approbation , as he had
constantly paid regard to ihe main chance , and appeared three times a week on the Change . An alderman suspends his judgment , as he conceives the " Proof of the pudding is in the eating . " Such were the opinions of those before Ike-curtain , And now he proceeded to take a peep behind . The tragedians consider it as a very mournful omen of their dissolution , and conclude a very dire and doleful farewel to all their greatness , in another parody on Othello , — for now . " The tragic Hero ' s occupation ' s o ' er , " - VOL . VI . s