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Miscellaneous.
taste , if that taste were properly catered for . Tlie play is on the pure Greek model ; abounding with passages of fine eloquence and sweet poetry . It has a truly classical air and character ; which , by the way , will not surprise those who know the profound Greek studies of the learned author . Macready ' s Ion was a fine piece of acting , but wanted the physical recommendations of the lofty Greek youth . Miss Tree ' s Clemanthe ivas tenderness itself .
At Drury Lane " the unrivalled Malibran" has appeared in Balfe ' s new Opera called The 3 Iaid of Artois ; a piece founded by Mr . Bunn , on the Abbe Provost ' s Mandre Lescant . The music displays the learning rather than the genius of the composer . For the literature of the thing , it is bad beyond the powers of belief . The successful singing and acting of Malibran have , however , carried it successfully through . At theHaymarket , Mr . Morris lias arrayed his female dancers to good houses . And at the English Opera , light Vaudevilles and sketchy Farces , with a touch of the dramatic , have met with tolerable patronage .
Strand . —A hope is now afforded us that the tide of fortune has at last flowed towards that part of the Strand where the theatre to ivhich it has given a name is situate . The season commenced under the management of Mr . AV . J . Hammond , a comedian of considerable pretensions , and Mr . Jerrold , the dramatist—ancl tragedian ! But of this anon . Mr . Hammond is a lively , bustling , off-hand actor , and as a comic singer without a superior in London , "The Painter of Ghent" is a little
one-act tragedy , a piece into which the author ( Mr . Jerrold ) has contrived to compress as mucli thought as in ordinary cases goes to the composition of a drama in five acts . It is highly imaginative , but too abstract for such visitors as are likely to be attracted to the " Strand . " The " Painter of Ghent" is a man of many sorrows ; in the extremity of want he had sold his children ' s portraits to supply them with bread ; it did not suffice to sustain lifethey all diedone bonesave the last
; , y , , the youngest , and she deserts him for a happier fate . His brain wanders—he believes her dead ; hut he becomes rich , and travels far to repurchase his children ' s portraits . At the opening of the piece he has just recovered the picture of the youngest , ancl at the close of the scene
( for it would mar the story to relate it ) that child is restored to him , a mother , with an infant the very counterpart of the portrait . The character is beautifully conceived , and in the embodying of it the author has employed the highest powers of his pen . It has , indeed , numberless beauties , and the piece has but one fault , an obscurity consequent upon the omission of seme half dozen lines that , if timely introduced , might render it all as clear to the understanding as the effect is forcible to the
imagination . This part was acted by Mr . Jerrold . It would be unfair to criticise a first performance undertaken under such peculiar circumstances ; yet , notwithstanding his timidity and inexperience , Mr . Jerrold succeeded in giving great truth , vividness , and force to his own conception . His person is very slight , but his face is strongly marked , expressive of thought and earnestness ; there is a bitterness of feeling about the mouth that peculiar poignancy to some of the
gave passages . His voice seems weak ancl thin in the upper notes , but the lower are round and full . His action , as may be expected , is defective—no matter ; he has feeling ancl intellect" ail other graces Will follow in their proper places . " —Public Ledger .
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Miscellaneous.
taste , if that taste were properly catered for . Tlie play is on the pure Greek model ; abounding with passages of fine eloquence and sweet poetry . It has a truly classical air and character ; which , by the way , will not surprise those who know the profound Greek studies of the learned author . Macready ' s Ion was a fine piece of acting , but wanted the physical recommendations of the lofty Greek youth . Miss Tree ' s Clemanthe ivas tenderness itself .
At Drury Lane " the unrivalled Malibran" has appeared in Balfe ' s new Opera called The 3 Iaid of Artois ; a piece founded by Mr . Bunn , on the Abbe Provost ' s Mandre Lescant . The music displays the learning rather than the genius of the composer . For the literature of the thing , it is bad beyond the powers of belief . The successful singing and acting of Malibran have , however , carried it successfully through . At theHaymarket , Mr . Morris lias arrayed his female dancers to good houses . And at the English Opera , light Vaudevilles and sketchy Farces , with a touch of the dramatic , have met with tolerable patronage .
Strand . —A hope is now afforded us that the tide of fortune has at last flowed towards that part of the Strand where the theatre to ivhich it has given a name is situate . The season commenced under the management of Mr . AV . J . Hammond , a comedian of considerable pretensions , and Mr . Jerrold , the dramatist—ancl tragedian ! But of this anon . Mr . Hammond is a lively , bustling , off-hand actor , and as a comic singer without a superior in London , "The Painter of Ghent" is a little
one-act tragedy , a piece into which the author ( Mr . Jerrold ) has contrived to compress as mucli thought as in ordinary cases goes to the composition of a drama in five acts . It is highly imaginative , but too abstract for such visitors as are likely to be attracted to the " Strand . " The " Painter of Ghent" is a man of many sorrows ; in the extremity of want he had sold his children ' s portraits to supply them with bread ; it did not suffice to sustain lifethey all diedone bonesave the last
; , y , , the youngest , and she deserts him for a happier fate . His brain wanders—he believes her dead ; hut he becomes rich , and travels far to repurchase his children ' s portraits . At the opening of the piece he has just recovered the picture of the youngest , ancl at the close of the scene
( for it would mar the story to relate it ) that child is restored to him , a mother , with an infant the very counterpart of the portrait . The character is beautifully conceived , and in the embodying of it the author has employed the highest powers of his pen . It has , indeed , numberless beauties , and the piece has but one fault , an obscurity consequent upon the omission of seme half dozen lines that , if timely introduced , might render it all as clear to the understanding as the effect is forcible to the
imagination . This part was acted by Mr . Jerrold . It would be unfair to criticise a first performance undertaken under such peculiar circumstances ; yet , notwithstanding his timidity and inexperience , Mr . Jerrold succeeded in giving great truth , vividness , and force to his own conception . His person is very slight , but his face is strongly marked , expressive of thought and earnestness ; there is a bitterness of feeling about the mouth that peculiar poignancy to some of the
gave passages . His voice seems weak ancl thin in the upper notes , but the lower are round and full . His action , as may be expected , is defective—no matter ; he has feeling ancl intellect" ail other graces Will follow in their proper places . " —Public Ledger .