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Strictures On Public Amusements.
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
THEATRE . ROYAL , HAYMARKET . . OCTOBER i , A NEW Musical Piece , in two Acts , was presented at the Haymarket Theatre , under the title of « THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD . "
Sir Oliver Alford , Mr . BARRYMORE ; Lord A / ford , - Mr . DIGNUM ; Apathy , ------ „ -Mr . SUETT ; Gabriel , - -Mr . BENSON ; Walter , - - Mr . BANNISTER , Jun . Lady Alford , - . - - . _ Miss DE CAMP ; Josephine , - Mrs . BLAND ; Walter ' s Mother , - - - - Mrs . BOOTH .
SKETCH OF THE FABLE . This Piece , as its title shews , is founded on the old familiar English story of " THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD , " with such deviations from the narrative as serve to render it dramatic and fit for the Stage . We believe the subject has already been given to the Theatre in Paris , but do not immediately remember the writer who it for
prepared representation , although we shrewdly suspect this petit piece , if not a version from the French , to be chiefly borrowed from our continental neighbours . Come it from whence it may , it was made as heartily welcome as any stranger could desire , the audience honouring it with repeated plaudits , many of which did infinite credit to their hearts and feelings .
The story is told upon our stage in an interesting way , and the serious and the comic are so happily blended , that he must be a dull and splenetic spectator and hearer , who does not find his humanity aroused , or his risibility excited , by the different incidents that make up the action of the Piece . The children are saved , which is a circumstance hi ghly gratifying to but it borders
sensibility ; on the improbable , and their discovery by their father and mother rather too violently shocks the feeling , the minds of the audience being led to believe that the infants are past hope of recovery . The Music does Dr . Arnold credit , particularly the Overture , in which the air of the old ballad of " Three Children sliding the
on Ice , " was very happily introduced . ° Mr . Rose , author of The Prisoner , Family Compact , and Caevwy ¦ pan Castle , is the author of the present Piece ,
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Strictures On Public Amusements.
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .
THEATRE . ROYAL , HAYMARKET . . OCTOBER i , A NEW Musical Piece , in two Acts , was presented at the Haymarket Theatre , under the title of « THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD . "
Sir Oliver Alford , Mr . BARRYMORE ; Lord A / ford , - Mr . DIGNUM ; Apathy , ------ „ -Mr . SUETT ; Gabriel , - -Mr . BENSON ; Walter , - - Mr . BANNISTER , Jun . Lady Alford , - . - - . _ Miss DE CAMP ; Josephine , - Mrs . BLAND ; Walter ' s Mother , - - - - Mrs . BOOTH .
SKETCH OF THE FABLE . This Piece , as its title shews , is founded on the old familiar English story of " THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD , " with such deviations from the narrative as serve to render it dramatic and fit for the Stage . We believe the subject has already been given to the Theatre in Paris , but do not immediately remember the writer who it for
prepared representation , although we shrewdly suspect this petit piece , if not a version from the French , to be chiefly borrowed from our continental neighbours . Come it from whence it may , it was made as heartily welcome as any stranger could desire , the audience honouring it with repeated plaudits , many of which did infinite credit to their hearts and feelings .
The story is told upon our stage in an interesting way , and the serious and the comic are so happily blended , that he must be a dull and splenetic spectator and hearer , who does not find his humanity aroused , or his risibility excited , by the different incidents that make up the action of the Piece . The children are saved , which is a circumstance hi ghly gratifying to but it borders
sensibility ; on the improbable , and their discovery by their father and mother rather too violently shocks the feeling , the minds of the audience being led to believe that the infants are past hope of recovery . The Music does Dr . Arnold credit , particularly the Overture , in which the air of the old ballad of " Three Children sliding the
on Ice , " was very happily introduced . ° Mr . Rose , author of The Prisoner , Family Compact , and Caevwy ¦ pan Castle , is the author of the present Piece ,