-
Articles/Ads
Article THE MIRROR OF THESPIS. ← Page 2 of 4 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Mirror Of Thespis.
for that valuable actor . Covent-Garden has this season obtained some powerful reinforcements both in the comic and operatic line . Mr . Emery , Mr . Hill , and Mr . Mansell ; Mrs . H John-ton , Mrs . Johnson , Mrs . Mills , Mrs . Chapman , Miss Mitchell , and Mrs , Wybrow , with some -others of inferior note , have presented themselves to our observation . It is not our intention , in this place , to criticise on the merits of every respective debut which has already occurred : we shall only attend to the future delineation of their merits .
Our present numberof the Mirror will close with some observations on the theatrical occurrences of the month : —these shall beas concisa as perspicuity will admit . On Monday , November 12 th , was brought forward at Covent-Garden Mr . Cobb's long expected opera of RAMA DROOH ; or Wine does Wonders' The principal characters were , —the Rajah , by Mr ; Emery ; Sidney , Mr . Incledon ; Liffey , Mr . Johnstone ; Cbellingoe ,
Mr . Munden ; Zemaun , Mr . H . Johnston ; Holkar , Mr . Townsend ; Govinda , Mr . Hill ; Alminah , Mrs . Chapman ; Eliza , Miss Mitchell ; Margaret , Mrs . Mills ; and Zelma , b \ a young lady , it being her first appearance on any stage . The gallant Sidney , with a detachment of British troops under his command , are taken prisoners by the usurping Rajah . During the conflict Sidney consigns his wife , Eliza , to the care of Serjeant Liffey , an Irishman ; they escape , and remain concealed till hunger compels them to leave their
hidingplace ; Liffey having brought away a bag , containing a suit of the Commissary ' s clothes , instead of a knapsack well stored with provisions . He disguises himself in the Commissary ' s dress , and they surrender themselves to a party of hunters , by whom they are carried to court , where Liffey passes for an European physician . The Rajah is taken ill pf an unknown disorder , and the artful Cbellingoe , thinking to advance his own interestrecommends Liffey , who
, prescribes , as an infallible medicine , a potatoe . The Rajah , whose illness is discovered to proceed from drinking claret , recovers ; and the successful labours of Liffey are crowned with weighty honours . Alminah , the Rajah's daughter , falls in love with Sidney , whom she offers to release , and accompany him in his flig ht . On these terms he nobly rejects his proffered liberty . By a blunder of the
Irish physician , Eliza is discovered to the haughty princess as the wife of Sidney , and she determines upon vengeance for her slig hted passion . The late Rajah's daughter , . Zelma , having been saved by Zemaun , an Indian prince , from the general ruin of her family , is by him guarded in her concealment in a part of the fortress of Ram ah Droog . Margaret , the intrepid and eccentric wife of Liffey , who accompanied the British in male attireis released bZemaun ,
army , y who sends her to meet a second detachment of our troops then at hand . She meets them , returns , and by threats compels Chellingoe , the prison-keeper , to conduft her to the fortress . By these means Z- 'maun and E / iza are liberated , who , accompanied by Liffev , carry
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Mirror Of Thespis.
for that valuable actor . Covent-Garden has this season obtained some powerful reinforcements both in the comic and operatic line . Mr . Emery , Mr . Hill , and Mr . Mansell ; Mrs . H John-ton , Mrs . Johnson , Mrs . Mills , Mrs . Chapman , Miss Mitchell , and Mrs , Wybrow , with some -others of inferior note , have presented themselves to our observation . It is not our intention , in this place , to criticise on the merits of every respective debut which has already occurred : we shall only attend to the future delineation of their merits .
Our present numberof the Mirror will close with some observations on the theatrical occurrences of the month : —these shall beas concisa as perspicuity will admit . On Monday , November 12 th , was brought forward at Covent-Garden Mr . Cobb's long expected opera of RAMA DROOH ; or Wine does Wonders' The principal characters were , —the Rajah , by Mr ; Emery ; Sidney , Mr . Incledon ; Liffey , Mr . Johnstone ; Cbellingoe ,
Mr . Munden ; Zemaun , Mr . H . Johnston ; Holkar , Mr . Townsend ; Govinda , Mr . Hill ; Alminah , Mrs . Chapman ; Eliza , Miss Mitchell ; Margaret , Mrs . Mills ; and Zelma , b \ a young lady , it being her first appearance on any stage . The gallant Sidney , with a detachment of British troops under his command , are taken prisoners by the usurping Rajah . During the conflict Sidney consigns his wife , Eliza , to the care of Serjeant Liffey , an Irishman ; they escape , and remain concealed till hunger compels them to leave their
hidingplace ; Liffey having brought away a bag , containing a suit of the Commissary ' s clothes , instead of a knapsack well stored with provisions . He disguises himself in the Commissary ' s dress , and they surrender themselves to a party of hunters , by whom they are carried to court , where Liffey passes for an European physician . The Rajah is taken ill pf an unknown disorder , and the artful Cbellingoe , thinking to advance his own interestrecommends Liffey , who
, prescribes , as an infallible medicine , a potatoe . The Rajah , whose illness is discovered to proceed from drinking claret , recovers ; and the successful labours of Liffey are crowned with weighty honours . Alminah , the Rajah's daughter , falls in love with Sidney , whom she offers to release , and accompany him in his flig ht . On these terms he nobly rejects his proffered liberty . By a blunder of the
Irish physician , Eliza is discovered to the haughty princess as the wife of Sidney , and she determines upon vengeance for her slig hted passion . The late Rajah's daughter , . Zelma , having been saved by Zemaun , an Indian prince , from the general ruin of her family , is by him guarded in her concealment in a part of the fortress of Ram ah Droog . Margaret , the intrepid and eccentric wife of Liffey , who accompanied the British in male attireis released bZemaun ,
army , y who sends her to meet a second detachment of our troops then at hand . She meets them , returns , and by threats compels Chellingoe , the prison-keeper , to conduft her to the fortress . By these means Z- 'maun and E / iza are liberated , who , accompanied by Liffev , carry