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New Music.
At the ADELPHI The Jewess capers after another fashion , and apes the washerwoman—hence we have a paragon of soap suds and blue
rum . At the VICTOBIA and the PAVILLION , she emeshes all within the scope of her resistless fascination , and the world is run mad with folly . If these absurdities continue , we shall of necessity he disposed to consider seriously of some propositions from the country to devote the small space hitherto allotted for theatrical notices to other objects . Yet can we leave thee , Drama—thou source of our early pleasure without regret?—nonor will we be yet without hopethat the wealth which is
pour-, , ing into the theatrical treasury may be applied to more legitimate purposes , for never at any period of the most flourishing state of the Drama , was there any thing like the nightly receipts which have been regularly taken since the opening of the present season . COVENT GARDEN , has no Jewess , at least she does not appear to have fascinated Osbaldiston . The late Surrey Company have been promoted to the Theatre Royaland to do them justicethey have much improved .
, , Fitzball , author also to the Surrey , has very properly been continued on the establishment , from his knowledge of the quality of those for whom he has to write ! He has made as much of Paid Clifford as the case allowed ; but the days of hig hwaymen have passed away with their deeds , and they would , if now existing , have cut but a sorry figure with the New Police . Other novelties have followed , and Power , with his true Irish frolic , and Kemble ' s assistance , have served to shew that the
public will patronize cheap theatres , and good actors—albeit however , these two exact a fearful sum nightly—more than double what John Kemble or Irish Johnstone received per week in the Drama ' s halcyon days ! Miss Taylor and George Bennett may be considered the stock support of this theatre—they are both of value to any manager , and at the present moment are the brightest gems of Covent Garden . The Siege of Rochelle , by being played with The Jewess , has run on
without interruption . lialfe has had a diamond baton and a claret Cup from the publishers of the Music , and he and they have also cupped Bunn in return . Tapping the Claret is no doubt a very pleasant and " fanciful" amusement , and when all is over , we shall have hopes that Macready and Farren may be allowed to resume their places in the Dramatic ring . Pantomime is the order of the day , and the juveniles will probably laugh heartily at the gambols of the motley groups ; but how would they have enjoyed him whose laugh was that of the heart—whose whim was genuine satire— Grimaldi- —once a year at least we miss thee !
ORIGINAL CRITICISM . " THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE . " The Count de Montalban , a terrible sinner . One day kill'd a child , in a house before dinner ; But , being unluckily seen , ( At least so runs the tale in an old Magazine ) By Miss Clarawho under the table was
hidden—, She came there , as most of her sex do , unbidden—His mask having dropp'd as he thought to escape , Her father beheld ! was the man in the crape . And while her hair turn'd in a whirl , He swore her—most dutiful girl—
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New Music.
At the ADELPHI The Jewess capers after another fashion , and apes the washerwoman—hence we have a paragon of soap suds and blue
rum . At the VICTOBIA and the PAVILLION , she emeshes all within the scope of her resistless fascination , and the world is run mad with folly . If these absurdities continue , we shall of necessity he disposed to consider seriously of some propositions from the country to devote the small space hitherto allotted for theatrical notices to other objects . Yet can we leave thee , Drama—thou source of our early pleasure without regret?—nonor will we be yet without hopethat the wealth which is
pour-, , ing into the theatrical treasury may be applied to more legitimate purposes , for never at any period of the most flourishing state of the Drama , was there any thing like the nightly receipts which have been regularly taken since the opening of the present season . COVENT GARDEN , has no Jewess , at least she does not appear to have fascinated Osbaldiston . The late Surrey Company have been promoted to the Theatre Royaland to do them justicethey have much improved .
, , Fitzball , author also to the Surrey , has very properly been continued on the establishment , from his knowledge of the quality of those for whom he has to write ! He has made as much of Paid Clifford as the case allowed ; but the days of hig hwaymen have passed away with their deeds , and they would , if now existing , have cut but a sorry figure with the New Police . Other novelties have followed , and Power , with his true Irish frolic , and Kemble ' s assistance , have served to shew that the
public will patronize cheap theatres , and good actors—albeit however , these two exact a fearful sum nightly—more than double what John Kemble or Irish Johnstone received per week in the Drama ' s halcyon days ! Miss Taylor and George Bennett may be considered the stock support of this theatre—they are both of value to any manager , and at the present moment are the brightest gems of Covent Garden . The Siege of Rochelle , by being played with The Jewess , has run on
without interruption . lialfe has had a diamond baton and a claret Cup from the publishers of the Music , and he and they have also cupped Bunn in return . Tapping the Claret is no doubt a very pleasant and " fanciful" amusement , and when all is over , we shall have hopes that Macready and Farren may be allowed to resume their places in the Dramatic ring . Pantomime is the order of the day , and the juveniles will probably laugh heartily at the gambols of the motley groups ; but how would they have enjoyed him whose laugh was that of the heart—whose whim was genuine satire— Grimaldi- —once a year at least we miss thee !
ORIGINAL CRITICISM . " THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE . " The Count de Montalban , a terrible sinner . One day kill'd a child , in a house before dinner ; But , being unluckily seen , ( At least so runs the tale in an old Magazine ) By Miss Clarawho under the table was
hidden—, She came there , as most of her sex do , unbidden—His mask having dropp'd as he thought to escape , Her father beheld ! was the man in the crape . And while her hair turn'd in a whirl , He swore her—most dutiful girl—