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Record Of The Week. Home And Colonial. A...
¦ that , among other attractions , there would be to record the appearance of the great actor M . Fechter . The opening of the season was fixed for last Saturday night . M . ITechter appeared in Mr . Edmund JTalconer ' s adaptation of Yictor Hugo ' s play of Ruy Ulas ( as we announced in our article above alluded to ) . Another first appearance under the present " dynasty" -was that of Mr . Walter Lacy , to whom one of the leading ' characters in B . uy Bias has been allotted . A new Comedietta , written by Mr . Harris himself , and entitled Susan Smith , was produced the same evening , in which a third new appearance took place , namely , that of Miss Murray . The performances concluded with The First Night , in which Miss Harris made so favourable an impression last season , and in which she and Mr . Harris aijpeared . The overture to Hug Bias , one of Mendelssohn ' s finest works of the kind , was performed by the excellent band of this theatre ( of which Mr . Levy is principal cornet ) , under the conduetorship of Mr . Montgomery . We had intended the foregoing part of this notice as a preliminary announcement for last number , but it was ex-. ' eluded by press , of matter . "We now , therefore ^ proceed to give some account of the performance . To go into the plot of Ruy Bias would be superfluous , as everybody knows it , in the main , through the original , " Victor Hugo ' s famous work , which is now " adapted " to the English stage by Mr . E . Falconer . Mr . Fechter is said to be by birth an Englishman , but by breeding a Frenchman ; and a slight accent and a G-alliean style apart , lie speaks the English language admirably . The play irt question belongs to what we may call the class of refined melodramas—the modern tragedy , in short . Be it remembered that according to no less an authority than Racine ( vid-e his introductory remarks to "Berenice" ) , even the ancient tragedy did not require , as an indis- " pensable condition , the perpetration of a greater or less . amount of murder . Of this style , of drama M . Fechter is indubitably and im- . measurably the greatest of living delineators . He it was who " created " those celebrated parts , which have become identified with his name in f'Les Freres Corses , " " Pauline , " and / "La Dame aux Camellias , " Mr . Feehter , the great English actor of to-day , appeared in London : some years ago as jyi . Feehter , a French actor , and a French actor of considerable merit , as the French-playgoing public may remember . Thus , Mr . Harris ' s winter season , commences with a brilliant success , and with the fairest prospect of continued triumphs . Mr . Harris ' s comedietta of Susan SmttJi , with which the evening ' s entertainment commenced , was highly successful j and Miss Murray established herself in the favour of the audience as an accomplished actress . St . James's Theatke . — This house , as announced in our number of September 1 st , opened on Monday , under Mr . Wigan ' s management . A new play , by Mr . Tom Taylor , entitled Up at the Sills , in which Mr . and Mrs . Wigan appeared , was produced ; and Mr . Planche ' s fairy tale , The King of the JPeacodcs , was revived on the opening night . The theatre has undergone a thorough renovation , and various alterations have been made with a view of promoting the accommodation of the public . The sceneiy ,. costumes , machinery , and all the various appliances and means are on a scale of first-rate excellence . The new "dynasty " begins its career under highly favourable auspices , ^ he preceding wag written as a preliminary notice for our last number , but press of matter postponed it . We now , therefore , " report the proceedings" of the opening " campaign . " T 7 j ? at the Sills ia one of that class of plays which Mr . Tom Taylor ( its author ) claims the inerit of having originated . The scene is laid in one of the hill stations in India . Major St . onohurst ( Mr . Wigan J > is rich in all the mental and physical qualifications adapted for making a polished gentleman and an eminent scoundrel . He is well bred , courteous , polite , an accomplished gambler , and , as the phrase goes , highly " successful with the women . " With these attributes the Major makes a dead set at a captivating widow ( somehow or other widows generally do try to captivate in more senses than one— " bevare of vidders , Sammy , " says old Weller ) , a certain Mrs . Eyorsleigh ( Miss Herbert ) j of whjose pecuniary loveliness , more even than her personal attractions , he has beoonio enamoured . But there is a friend of the widow ' s , a Mrs . McOann ( Mrs . A . Wigan ) , who , knowing the real character of the wicked Major , determines to thwart him . Out of these elements Mr . Tom Taylor dovelopes a system of histrionic strategy , and dramatic tactical combinations , like unto those for whioh he has already become so celebrated . Mrs . MoCann gets access to one of the Major ' s boon companions , of that hybrid class that we might define hali > du ' pe half-knave , and worms out of him a duly authenticated narrative of some very dishonourable practice on the part of the Major , in those transactions whioh give rise to debts , emphatically termed debts of honour , and tending to show that if there is honour among thioves , there is not so muoh to be said in favour of gamblers . Thus sho has the Major ' s good name and reputation in hoi' hands , and though this model military , man , like Col . Chartree of old , would not ( as Lord Ohesterfield tells us of the latter ) give twoponoo for virtue , honesty , or morality , he values his chai'actor at a good round sum , and is therefore somewhat aghast ; at the idea of losing it . Meanwhile , it appears that the Major and the widow Eversloigh wero nob ontirely unknown , to each , 011101 " before that ludy ' s marriage On the oontrary , the Mnjor has certain epistolary compositions of hers in his possession , whioh it soems are of a nature that it would not be quite oomme il . faut- —quite consistent with propriofcy , for the world ( i . e ., a few English families " at the hills " and their hundred or two friends and connections at homo ) to know of . Thus tho Major thinks he has got what ho would call , amongst his gambling friends " a pull" on tho widow . ( It is matter of history that the most accomplished gentleman and tho most ) accomplished blackguard in Europe wero once united in tho porson of a British sovereign . ) However , thoro is euoh a thing as fighting a oorl ; ain sable individual with his own olaws . The Major haa committed one of those worst of blundors that ( aooarding to the Fronoh statesman ' s saying ) is worse than tho worst of orimos . Those who , have been svrorn at Higligato aro plodged novor to kiss tho maid when they oan kiss the mistress . But tho Mujor , with all his accomplishments , Hither has not gone through that pious ooromony , or elso the evil one lias beguiled him in a niomont of frailty . Ho has actuall y boon kissing < the widow ' s abigail , a young tody of colour ( Miss Kato Torry ) , whoso name , which sounds something like money pronounced after the i Oriental fashion , way possibly mro oausod n oonftosion of ideas , and . 3 4
led to his indiscretion . Thereupon Mrs . McCann makes Monee , the widow ' s maid , steal . the widow ' s pre-marital letters to the Major , from the latter personage ^ and burns them out of hand . The Major resolves to steal them back again , and to that end he makes a burglarious entry by night into the widow ' s house ( we beg pardon , bungalow—they are not houses , but bungalows , that people inhabit in India ) , and secures the box in which the letters had been stolen . When he opens it , however , which he does before all the dramatis personce . concerned , and , as he imagines , to the confusion of the widow , what should he produce therefrom ^ of all things in the world , but the very identical papers which satisfactorily establish his own rascality ? Hereupon he turns penitent in due histrionic form , and marries the widow ' s Monee , instead of marrying . the widow , for her money ; and the widow herself , marries a very tame and docile specimen ofthe genus homo , warranted to go well in harness , and whom no doubt she will find much easier managed and controlled than the like of the Major . And so the story ends . The piece was entirely successful . on its own merits ; but had it no merits of its own , the admirable acting of Mr . and Mrs . A . Wigan would have given it a decided success . The whole cast was good , all the characters of the piece being appropriately and efficiently filled , particularly that of the widow , who found in Miss Herbert a graceful and accomplished representative . The success likely to attend the present management promises to raise this theatre to the highest rank for the production of really sterling pieces , rendered by artists second to none iii their profession . . Mb , Joseph PitocroE .- ^ -The great American actor , Mr . Joseph Proctor , is now fulfilling an engagement in London , and playing his most celebrated Shaksperean characters at the Standard and , Marylebone Theatres , in addition to other special delineations comprised in his extensive repertory . Theatee Hoyal , DtJBLiN .- ^ Mr . John Drew , as a delineator of Irish character , has , achieved a triumph at this house , where , considering the locality , something more than even the first rate " stage Irishman" may well be supposed essential to success . A numerous audience assembled to welcome the new candidate for public favour , and gave Mr . Drew a niost cordial reception , and as he pi'oceeded with his performances loud and hearty applause from all parts of the house testified that he was , recognised as an actor of sterling merit , and had won a genuine success . Th e piece selected for his debut was the " Irish Ambassador , " in which he sustained the part of Sir Patrick O'Plempb . Perhaps there is no Irish character on the stage which requires greater tact and ability for its adequate portrayal than that of the blundering , off-handed , rollicking , and gentlemanly Irishman , who innocently acquires the fame of an astute diplomatist by the simple but unusual process of telling the truth . The dashing style , the impulsiveness , the lively assurance of Sir Patrick , are combined with an easy and polished address , and the tone and manner of refined society . The slightest extravagance of gesture ' or exaggeration of the Irish brogue is therefore to be carefully avoided in the successful representation of this character . Considering the difficulty of the part , we congratulate Mr . Drew on the ability with , which he acquitted himself . He displayed , in a high degree , the best qualities of Irish humour , and created great laughter by the yivaqious , pointed ,. and racy style in which he developed the salient characteristics of the Irish ambassador . The curtain fell amidst loud applause and calls for Mr . Drew , who on appearing before the audience , thanked them in a short and pithy address for the kind reception which they had given him . Mr . Drew subsequently appeared in the part of " Handy Andy , " in a drama adapted from Mr . Lover ' s well-known novel . Handy Andy is an Irish peasant , with much of the humour of his class , and an amount of his stupidity and capacity for blundering peculiar to himself . The laughable mistakes and absurd misadventures which form so prominent a feature of the novel , constitute tho entire fun of the adaptation . Mr . Drew dressed and aoted the j > art to perfection , The quaint stupidity , the awkward manners , the laughable distresses , and the broad humour of tho character—verging at times on extravagance —were enaoted by Mr . Drew with a rich and racy drollery which kept the house in roars of laughter during tho entire time he was upon the stage . His performance of this character is completely original , and is alone sufficient to stamp him as an Irish comedian of the highest order . Mr . Drew , therefore , it will be seexi , posseses the versatilejpower of representing two classes of character more widely different than most people might be disposed to imagine j namely , thoJtosh peasant , and the Irish patrician .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1860, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03111860/page/15/
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