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The Prima Donna: Opening- Of The Pkinces...
f anything else—not a chest of drawers , for example ! However , as insist upon an explanation , listen . In the anecdote just narrated , y nu see how useful the acquisition of French may be . Had I been simply l ^ nfflishman , I should have had to bear the consequences of Le Chat ^ nn £ s taking it coolly . But the terror of the French name—the conrora of the " universe "—the soldiers who won the battles of Toulouse qU Waterloo—naturally inspired the British guard ( railway guard ) with ek alacrity to make me comfortable . In fact , French did for me what i ? rloes for our dramatists—converted a difficulty into a triumph ! But the curtain is up ! Stella , the Prima Donna in question , enters , followed by Mr . Rouble , an amorous banker . Stella is the debutante , with fine and hairhose drawing
Vr Heath , a young lady eyes , w -room rirriaffe and intelligent delivery give promise of an agreeable actress in a line poorly furnished on our stage . The banker is Walter Lacy , vice Wiean R ouble is an eccentric , excellent creature , with " strictly honourable intentions" towards the fair Stella . But of what use are " intentions "— of what use is love , when the heart is already occupied P Omnia vincit amor , says the bragging poet ; to which maxim I beg to add a coda : Prater amorem— " Love conquers all things—except Love ! " and most true is the remark of Stella— " Poor Rouble ! I should like him very much if he did not love me ! " Who has not read that chapter in the history of Love ?—who is there ignorant of that " sorrow's crown of sorrow " the misery of irremediable wrong arising out of all being claimed
when only some can be given P Love does not conquer that ! And yet the banker is not to be pitied . He is happy , after all . If not happy in his love , as people say , he is happy by love , for love is fuller life , as Calderon testineth : — Pues vive mas donde ama El hombre , que donde anhna ! or , to give it you in the more touching verse of Milnes : — He who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall , Is happier thousand-fold than one Who never loved at all ; A grace within his soul has reigned
Which nothing else can bring—Thank God for all that I have gained By that high suffering I And so you see Rouble is not to be pitied , especially as we guess at once that Stella will accept him after all . But how ? Does she not love Count Uric , an officer in the Austrian service ? ( Such an officer ! such an Austrian ! Ye gods ! I think every patriotic soul in the theatre must have thrilled with contemptuous delight at that effig ies of Austria !) There lies
the dramatic difficulty . But to Frenchmen , whether at lemms JJit-on or in Milan , difficulty is an inadmissable word . Voyons . Can we not get rid of this young Austrian P There is Stella's adopted sister Margaret , " sickening of that vague disease , " can we not revive her P To a Frenchman nothing is impossible . The thing is done—how , I won ' t tell you , because that will take the edge off your curiosity ; but it is done , and a sufficiently amusing drama represents the doing of it . Bourcicault , according to gossip report , was to have played the young Austrian ; had he done so , the piece would have been infinitely more agreeable , for , with
the best will in the world , one could not feel the slightest interest in Mr . Cathcart ' s presentation of the part : it was bad Charles Kean Heavens ! ! Good Charles Kean was seen in the Corsican ^ Brothers , which followed . This is really a good piece of acting from first to last , and all in " keeping . " He strikes the key-note early , and never wanders from it . The duel is perfect . Walter Lacy , who was very amusing in the first piece , was at a disadvantage in Chateau Renaud . His manner had not a touch of the Frenchman , so that his " make up" by its very fidelity brought into stronger relief the English nature it was meant to disguise . By the way , I neglected to give a word of deserved praise to Miss Robertson for her acting of Margaret in the Prima Donna , especially in the first act , where , as the French say , she had " good moments" of genuine pathos and impulse . On Tuesday I went to see
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN , at the Olympic . The immense , the unheard-of , success of Mrs . Stowe ' s novel—a success as great on this as on the other side of the Atlantic—has of course set the minor theatres to the work of dramatizing it . The piece at the Olympic , though feeble and inartificial in its dialogue and structure , contains enough of the material to make a very popular drama , and was received with laughter , tears , and applause . I could not help moralizing as I sat there , and heard the shouts of laughter called forth by scenes so tragic , so unpleasantly painful , that I wished myself away ; but being the pathos of niggers it excited boisterous laughter ! Tears were shed too ; but the audience could not subdue its sense of the ludicrous to a
proper sympathy with the tragedy before them . The man is torn from his wife and children—sold to another master—and the audience laugh ! What a subject for mirth ! And yet , do not misunderstand me . The English hearts there present beat in manly sympathy for the miserable slave . Tears were not wanting . But as you may have observed how characteristic it is of the uncultivated mind to forget essentials in collaterals—to be carried away from its contemplation of the heart and marrow of a question by some side detail—imitating the bull in the arena , and suffering itself to be withdrawn from its enemy by the fluttering of a scarlet rag—so in this really tragic scene the audience forgot the tragedy in the nigger dialect uttering nigger pathos .
As for me , I have been unable to read Uncle Tom ' s Cabin—not because I have no relish for pathetic fiction ( give me one , and I will cry over it even to " slops , " as a dear juvenile of my acquaintance phrases it ) , but because when fictions turn on such gigantic and immediate realities as slavery , the pain ceases to be pleasurable . I delight to think of the indignation which the book is intensif y ing , but not being able practically to interfere in the slave question , I decline making myself uncomfortable over it . At the Olympic there was less of this , because the manifest
unreality of the drama checked a too quick sympathy ; but nothing could banish from my mind the consciousness of the living horror there parodied . The acting of Mrs . Walter Lacy in the part of Eliza gave unexpected indications of a powerful melodramatic actress , which I advise her to develop by further trials . G . Cooke , as Uncle Tom , was humorous and pathetic . William Farren " did" the melodramatic lover with a vehemence which the Victoria would have appreciated : his curses were loud , certainly , but not deep . Vivian .
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Indian and European Oratory . —An Indian ' s delivery , when speaking , is deliberate , slow , and monotonous , almost as if thinking aloud , and the punctuations are very strongly marked , and very long ; their action is very fine , and they use a great deal of it . They display a favourable contrast to European orators , in never interrupting one another by word or look , even though the speaker may be uttering sentiments quite opposed to those of his audience , or even things they all know to bo untrue , and could refute ; still ho is always listened to with apparent respect and attention , and when he has sat down , although perhaps there may he a dozen who are burning to contradict , or agree with 1 'iin , they sit a few minutes , as if meditating on what hud been said , and then rise with the greatest deliberation , always giving way to the eldest . Certainly a < ' <> uneil of Indian chiefs is generally conducted with ii'oro decorum and self-respect , than most public meet" > £ n in more civilized countries . — Sui ^ iVAN ' S Rambles " '« America . A Bivushinci to Moth jo its ! - — Tho chief , in whose od ^ e we had taken- up our residence , was the Uncut Npminen of an Indian I ever saw , both in appearance "' id nature ; he was called " Wnh-lon-she , " which N'gnifies tho " good man , " in consequence of his amiable M '' lil , ies ; his affection for his wife and children was v < '' " . y remarkable , especially for tho latter , and there AV ! lH 011 <> little hoy , about two years old , whom be used j » nurwo and cram with fat cow till it could hardly " '• 'atlie , and when it arrived at that state of repletion » il , () 11 > - expected it to explode every moment ., he used <() W't a lump of fat , and greasej it well about , the ditf « 's | , <) organs , which seemud to give it great relief , : lll ( l Mien lay it down before the fire till it- subsided Ul } ' *> something liko its natural shape . — Sin . LlVAN ' tf ¦ lumblrs iH America . IjIVK . — ' I <) ,, ( . „ H 1 , ;( | | () „ ,, n ^ i-eeablo misanthrope , ^ ' <• had introduced to me a young friend of bis , lour friend , my dear mr , ban no worldly tact ; be "" own nothing whatever of the usages of life . " " Ah , " " ! . " ! I {/ - > " ho is already as mournful and downcast as 11 ' »• ' knew overy tittle " of that of which you reproach " «»» with utter \ gMviniw . " - ~ ChcMi / brL
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25091852/page/23/
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