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Miscellaneous,
The Drama , SJC . —The past quarter has been unmarked by any striking novelty in the dramatic world . At the Haymarket , Ion has heen produced with more than usual splendour for that establishment . There is much grace in the Ion of Miss Tree ; but the part , as was to be expected , wants individuality and marking . Mr . Morris has played many of the old comedies ; antl thus judiciously brought all his cominto operationinstead of keeping it as heretofore in the
backpany , ground , making it mere minor details , to give relief to one principal character . For the two or three last seasons , the new pieces have been entirely for Mr . Farren , assuredly a very high actor ; but we almost prefer a comedy respectably played in all its parts , to a monodrame written for the peculiarities of any individual artist .
Covent Garden has opened , and Mr . C . Kemble is engaged to play his round of characters , previously to his retirement from the stage . He has for many years delighted , we will add , instructed the town ; for they who develop the refinements of our nature , instruct in the very highest sense ; and he deserves the best sympathies and best wishes of all . At Drury Lane we are to have new operas ; and we are , moreover , to have—Taglioni ! We do not condemn Mr . Bunn , but the system ,
which fixes upon him a privilege , that he cares not to assert . The regular drama is withheld from the Olympic , & c . for the special profit of the lessees of Drury Lane and Covent Garden . How they value the high immunity , they have sufficiently illustrated .
The Olympic—that pleasantest of little houses , for we have there every thing in sugar—has been re-decorated and enlarged , and Madame takes the field with a strong company . The New Strand closed its season on the 17 th . We subjoin the address spoken on the occasion by Mr . W . J . Hammond : — LAPIES AND GENTLEMEN—I might utter thisour farewell address
, , , in the mask of Janus ; for I have to speak of the past and the future . At our commencement , from the suddenness with which we entered on the task , there were many deficiencies—some mistakes . For these " . . . . wo aro very sorry—very much ashamed , And mean , next season , to be quite reclaimed . "
We began with a tragic drama— The Painter of Ghent ; but as the aspect of boxes and p it was much more tragic than we could wish , wein sailors' phrase— " let go the painter , " It has been said that our stage is too small for great endeavours . To this we answer , —if the stage , compared to others , be as a cherry-stone , we have contrived to carve upon it what has been held a tolerable Hercules . We havehoweverserious thoughts of enlarging the stage ; that
, , is if you advise the addition of very extensive stables . Otherwise , we shall remain as we are ; the present parlour being quite large enough for the comic muse , —at least , when she comes on foot . The horse-shoe may be very well nailed to the barn door ; but the horse-shoe has no business there , when the barn becomes a theatre . We tried something like a ballet , which , after a few nights ( but purely out of mercy to the reputation of Taglioni and Perrot ) we withdrew .
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Miscellaneous,
The Drama , SJC . —The past quarter has been unmarked by any striking novelty in the dramatic world . At the Haymarket , Ion has heen produced with more than usual splendour for that establishment . There is much grace in the Ion of Miss Tree ; but the part , as was to be expected , wants individuality and marking . Mr . Morris has played many of the old comedies ; antl thus judiciously brought all his cominto operationinstead of keeping it as heretofore in the
backpany , ground , making it mere minor details , to give relief to one principal character . For the two or three last seasons , the new pieces have been entirely for Mr . Farren , assuredly a very high actor ; but we almost prefer a comedy respectably played in all its parts , to a monodrame written for the peculiarities of any individual artist .
Covent Garden has opened , and Mr . C . Kemble is engaged to play his round of characters , previously to his retirement from the stage . He has for many years delighted , we will add , instructed the town ; for they who develop the refinements of our nature , instruct in the very highest sense ; and he deserves the best sympathies and best wishes of all . At Drury Lane we are to have new operas ; and we are , moreover , to have—Taglioni ! We do not condemn Mr . Bunn , but the system ,
which fixes upon him a privilege , that he cares not to assert . The regular drama is withheld from the Olympic , & c . for the special profit of the lessees of Drury Lane and Covent Garden . How they value the high immunity , they have sufficiently illustrated .
The Olympic—that pleasantest of little houses , for we have there every thing in sugar—has been re-decorated and enlarged , and Madame takes the field with a strong company . The New Strand closed its season on the 17 th . We subjoin the address spoken on the occasion by Mr . W . J . Hammond : — LAPIES AND GENTLEMEN—I might utter thisour farewell address
, , , in the mask of Janus ; for I have to speak of the past and the future . At our commencement , from the suddenness with which we entered on the task , there were many deficiencies—some mistakes . For these " . . . . wo aro very sorry—very much ashamed , And mean , next season , to be quite reclaimed . "
We began with a tragic drama— The Painter of Ghent ; but as the aspect of boxes and p it was much more tragic than we could wish , wein sailors' phrase— " let go the painter , " It has been said that our stage is too small for great endeavours . To this we answer , —if the stage , compared to others , be as a cherry-stone , we have contrived to carve upon it what has been held a tolerable Hercules . We havehoweverserious thoughts of enlarging the stage ; that
, , is if you advise the addition of very extensive stables . Otherwise , we shall remain as we are ; the present parlour being quite large enough for the comic muse , —at least , when she comes on foot . The horse-shoe may be very well nailed to the barn door ; but the horse-shoe has no business there , when the barn becomes a theatre . We tried something like a ballet , which , after a few nights ( but purely out of mercy to the reputation of Taglioni and Perrot ) we withdrew .