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G^4 The Saturday Analyst And Leader, [Oc...
g ^ 4 The Saturday Analyst and Leader , [ Oct . 6 , I 860
Her Majesty's Theatre.—'This Theatre, Wi...
Her Majesty ' s Theatre . — 'This theatre , with its renowned " double company , " opens on Monday , with Mr . Or . A . Macfarren ' s hew" opera of Robin JFToocl , the libretto beiiig from the facile and elegant pen of Mr . John Oxenford , and will afford appropriate and ample scope for a display of the vocal powers of Mr . Sims Reeves , Mr . George Perren , Mr . Santley , Madame Ijeninlens Sherrington , and the other eminent artistes who will appear in it . In the new scenery which will be presented , it is believed that Mr . W . Beverley will be found to have excelled himself . The ballet under M . Massot will be on the most attractive scale , and the most efficient ¦« footing . " All business details of the establishment are in the best working order , under the acting and stage managers Mr . Mapleson and Mr . Robert Roxby , respectively . The orchestra and chorus will exemplify the completeness and excellence
of the training for which Mr . Charles Halls ' , the conductor , is so creditably known to the public . Mr . W . V . Wallace ' s new opera of the Amber Witch will be produced in due course . In addition to the English opera season , there is to be given , concurrently w ith it , an additional " Italian Season" of 30 nights , commencing on " Wednesday next , in-which all the vast resources of this theatre , in the ; foreign department , will be brought into active requisition . We need but write the names Titiens , Giuglini , Gassier , Cialnpi ( the successor of tablache ) . A hew appearance is promised in the advent of Sig . Francesco Briani , who brings a considerable reputation from Italy ; Sig . Arditi wields the conductor ' s baton . In the ballet Mdlle . Morlacchi will display that combined melange of facile grace , blended with vigorous executive power , which have made ; her bo popular a favourite .
Altogether the house opens under brilliant auspices . DHtrfiy-iiANE Theatre . —This national theatre will open on the 15 th October for the eighth winter season , under the management of Mr . E . ' . T ' i Smith . Among the company whose services have been secured , we may mention the eminent and favourite . names of Mr . and Mrs . Charles Kean , Mr . and Mrs : Charles Matthews , Mr . G-ustaviis Brooke , Mrs . Stirling , Mr . Benjamin Webster , Mr , RoTbert Roxby , Mr . Paul Bedford , Mr . F . Matthews , Miss Arden , & c . There will be two " first appearances" at '' Old Drury" hi the forthcoming season . Mr . Lambert ( who brings With him ... ' a great antipodean reputation ) and Miss Stirling , of Olympic celebrity . Mr . Watts Phillips , author of the JDead Beart , & c , produces a new drama , in which Mr .. B . Webster will sustain the leading character . A grand
Christmas pantomime ^ from the pen of Mr . E . Ij . Blanchai'd , is in store , in which the constructive and artistic talents of Mr . Beverley will find scope for their development . l ^ he stage-managership will be in the experienced and able hands of Mr . R . Roxby ; and Mr . Tully , than whom an abler artiste could not well be indicated ^ assximes his wonted functions in the musical directorship . Mr . W-illiani Beverly presides : as usual over the scenic department , in which his abilities are too well known for us to do . more than tecord his name ; merely adding , that as regards machinery and properties , tie will have the able assistance , respectively of Mr . Needham aud Mr . Tucker . The arrangements for the ballet , under Mr > Cormack , will > we have reason to believe , justify public expectation . Such is an outline of the pvograrnme to be carried out in the forthcoming campaign . We shall enter into detail in . future articles .
Olympic Thbatbe . — Secret Service has been successfully performed during the past week , together with the pieces noticed in our last nuinber . Next week The Porter ' s Knot will be revived , and Mr . J . M . Morton ' s new piece , entitled a Regular Mx , will be produced on Thursday . On Monday the favourite piece entitled " Piiss , " will be produced for the first time at this house . Mr . F , Eobson will appear on Monday . LxoEirai : THEATBI 3 .-T-This house opened on Monday evening- with the Brigand and his Banter , Delicate Ground , and Magic Fops . The merits of a piece must be estimated by its suitability for pleasing the public taste . Adaptation of means to ends is the grand secret of success . It is for this reason why , upon the Darwinian theory of " national selection , " some races are preserved in the struggle for existence ; and for precisely the same it is that some p ieces survive , and others are consigned to that traditionary tomb to which all things that
cannot stand competition in their respective spheres , are ultimately swept away . Judged by this standard , Mr . TopaTaylor ' s new piece the Brigand a ? id Ms Banker , must be jnentioned with a somewhat sparing meed of praise . The play is a ? , follows : a certain freetrader , ox ^ e Hadgi 9 taorus ( Mr . George Vining ) , pn the laudable look-out , somewhere in Greece * for stray cockneys on their travels , bags a very heterogeneous batch in the shape of Mies Porcupine , a strong-winded specimen of the feminine institution ( Mrs . Keeley ) , her nioee Miss Meltpn ( Miss M . ITernan ) , Jphn JpBeph Jerra . ms , Mies Porcupine ' s footman ( Mr . J . Bouse ) ,, a perfect type and incarnation of ' * plush " and " flunkeyism , " Captain Obadiah Harris of the United States' service j and a German botanizing individual ( personated by Mr . Villiere ) , hunting after roots and herbswho with Miss Melton , constitutes one
, pftlie love-making couples of the piece . Tho heroine of tho play is Photini ptfadame Celeste ) , daughter of the " freetrader" aforesaid , who having been bred in a convent , turns out , on approaching her majority , somewhat in the same manner , mtitqtls mutandis , as an eagle would do if hatched in a dove < jot , and kopt there till it a wived at eagle ' s estate . " Working in" with our " freetrader , " is one Captain Poriklee , pf the Athenian royal guards ( Mr . Forrester ) , who combines tho characters of a fashionable dandy and on incorrigible rogue , and whp contributes to the action of the piece , taking caro to st ^ np Iub frjond ' e victims pf whatever that accomplished pooulutor may have loft
them . After a variety of startling incidents , tho unfortunate party arc liberated by the good offices pf the semi-tamed young tigress Photini , who is tamed outright at , last by love , who . as wo are credibly informed , as matter of tradition , " hath charms to sooth the eavago breast , '' and is actually said to have pared tho nails of lions and , panthprs , though when , combined with jealoiiBy , it ia auppoaod to have considerably sharpened the tongues , not to say tho talona of thp softer eex . She booomea enamoured pf Obadiah . and so tho etpry ends , to the satisfaction Pf everybody in general , and the audianoe in pax £ ipu 3 iM \ The pieces were well put upp » ihpstage , « tfd' well acted . Mft Gnlleott ' B artliBtiiQ effprte in tho Boenio department are deserving oftho highest praise . As regard * the inimitaWe dancing of Miss Jjydia TJiompopn ,
in her own unique and original style , her merits are thoroughly appreciated by the lovers of terpsichorean executive power . The npveltiea produced have drawn crowded audiences to the favourite temple of the histrionic muse . The " renovation" which this house has undergone is thoroughl y complete : and elegant .. Oh Monday Mr . Dion 3 oucicault ' s comedy , entitled " The Irish Heiress , " will be produced , in which Mr . Henry Neville will make his first appearance before a London audience . . Standard Theatrk . —A delay occurred in the advent at this house
of Miss Julia St . George . Instead of Saturday , Monday was the liight of her appearance here , wheii she enchanted a crowded audience by her graceful impersonation Of Appllo , in the favourite operetta of Jfidas , identified with Vestrisian reminiscences . Miss Marriott ' s great and versatile powers have been exhibited to advantage during the Week in The Daughter of the People ., . Last Saturday a grand farewell performance took place , it being Mr . Barry Sullivan ' s last night at this theatre , when he appeared as the " Stranger , " in the drama of that name ; and Claude Melnotte , in The Xady of Lyons ; Miss Marriott sustaining the respective parts of Mrs . Haller , and Pauline .
Eastern Opeua Hotrsi ; . — -Herr Meyer tutze and Mi *; J . Mengis have been engaged by Mr . Douglass for this theatre . Mr . J . W . Parkinson's engagement here will extend to three nights per week after this day ' ( Saturday ) ,., in consequence of being engaged the other three at Her Majesty 8 Theatre . . Mr . J . L . TooiiE . —This actor , who , in that class of parts the characteristic of which iriay be described as cpnvuising drollery and the sublime of fun , is such a justly popular favourite , has been " starring it , " with great success in that gem of the sea , the Emerald Isle . Ma . BABBY 3 Fi , t . iVAN . —We understand that Mr . Sullivan is boiuidfor the provinces . He will appear at Liverpool arid Manchester , and about tlie middle of November lip will return to London and resume his town engagementSj . playing here up to Christmas . . . ' . : ¦ ¦ . ! w- Mb . Chaeles Dillon and Me . RYiDER .- —These dramatic artistes are on the " York Circuit" at present . They have , we hear , been playing the leading parts ih Mfacbeifi , at Leeds , during the past week . ate that the
CitYSTAL PAtAQE . —It is fitting and ^ appropri artiste who lias enjoyed the reputation of being the greatest songstress which the sacred drama has to showat the present day , and one of the greatest this country has ever seen , should give her farewell performance before the London public at the great " Winter 0 arden " of the metropolisj which is the only edific & large enough , though hardly large enough as it turned out , to afford space for the crowds who flocked to bid her adieu . The cantatrice , whom Mendelssohn is known to have indicated to the high ' est musical association , then in existence , as one of the first singers in Europe , has well maintained her reputation , which may now be said to he at its . height 4 so that she retires amid the undiminished admiration of the public , with their enthusiastic plaudits ringing in her ears . She has not waited to be a ceiebrity of the past before she quits the scenethe est
nor lived oiit her public life to that critical period when great artiste becomes , not the favourite of the present , by the legacy of the 2 > ast . The Crystal Palace has been identified with some of the graindest inusieal gatherings that have yet had their advent in Europe . The Handel Festivals , the French Orpheonists , are among the re-unions connected with its . name , and now another interesting association is hound up with it , in Madaine Clara Novella ' s farewell . We do not intend to enter into detailed criticism , here . Not because criticism is an ungracious office ; in the present instance it could not be so , because to criticise would be . but to praise . But Madame NoveHoV qualities , as an artiste , are top well known to need recapitulation . Upon the question whether this g ifted lady will be prevailed upon to reconsider her present determination , and continue , at least for a space , still to delight of it is not intention
tho jmblio with her nightingale strains , course our to prognosticate . We take the " farewell" as such , and a s it has been put forth . We see , and we arp glad to record the fact , as it will a fford gratification to expectant thousands , that the totality of her farewell performances will oompriso a professional tour now in course of taking place , with Hen * Molique ( whose oratorio of Abraham was noticed at longtli in our last number ) , Madame Anna Mplique , tlie pianist , ¦ and t \) 0 London and Madrigal Union , Under the directorship of Mr . La . » d . To resume : —Madame Novello had for her leading associates last Saturday , when tho Messiah was performed , Madame Sairiton Polby , Mr , Wilbyo Cooper , and Mr . Santley : and in the Creation , which was given on Friday , Mr . [ Weiss , and the befpre-mentipned accomplished tenor . The execution of these maotorly works was such ' as was to bo anticipated iron * these eminent soloistfl ,-ih conjunction with a band chorus of 2 , 000 instruments and voices , under the control of such a baton as'that whiou
Mr . Benedict wields with a degree pf experience and ability so unequivocal . In connection with the Crystal Palaoe we may mention that the performance of Mr . a . W . Martin ' s prize glees and choral part eonga , which was to have been repeated on the 13 th , is postponed for tho present , for reasons explained in our notice ( in . another column ; headed the " National Choral Sooiety , " and l < Volunteer Choral Move , mont . " We have | ust space to add that an admirable series of « Qrond Italian Oonoerts" is being given at tho Crystal Palaoe , tlio managoiiient of which over shows itself on the gul vive in cateripg for tJje public taste . We shall notice this series in detail after its termination . SuMoo ib to say here thai ) tho pei'forjnaneea and the dayB that have beon fixed aro as follows i—Thuredoy , 4 th inet ., Stabat Muter ; Saturday , 6 th , and Tuesday , 9 th , for selections from Trovatore uxid Martha-, JJon ( Hovanni and Les fflugenpts . Tho leuding soloists aro Mile . lotions , Madamo Lomah'o and Signori Guiglini , Vialotti , and Valfloranu Imp conductors , Mr , Benedict and Sig . Arditi . . The nuinbov of persons who nttondod tho Crystal Ptilauo luat woolc was 28711 .
, , This "Mesbiaji ; " a » 9 ' r . Jamas' H ^^ jc .- — 'A roproacntalion oi tmu groat maatorpiooo of tho auovod department oiiliho lyyio drama , wnsffivp " ly » . Wyldo , at St . James' Hall , on Wednesday evening . Tho ohonm and orohoetrft numbered 200 porfprraora , among whpm wore Me . W my , Mr . Viootti Collins , loading violins j Mr . T . Ifa , rpor , whoso ¦ "trumpet ebligato •» in tho third part in so essential an element iw a opinpleto perforoianoe pf this great wtok . Tho eolo vpoaliats wore MUo . Pftvopft Mftdamo SantonJOolbyv ^ r .: <^ eprge Porren , irad Mr , P « tey . - * -Wf » ; known aoopiapWehmentu of the Bingersj and the oratowp itself being ftlmoBt knowft by heart with the jnuejoia public , renders it a worfc .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1860, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06101860/page/14/
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