The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

SKETCHES OF LONDON ACTORS AND
ACTRESSES.

MRS. KEELEY.

When, in the days whoa the preeest trusulati
Theatre was the lapliab Opus Hawse, the is
gentleman who "did the reviews ie that new de.
periotheal The Wintry Drattabe*
wrote that " a Mies Goward was a very
repreesstative of tbe two weeks
Bolas and Little Piot* sal the sadism seeniSt
nub entiiied by bet exertions; he hed seas*
=Little sides UM the pang lay v
wield Nee to he the beet Worst *Wrbs. hien ea
the Regihi siege, ad sub a beguile with the
Leedom *nig pehlie that by ler " exartiewe"
she bee beat ambled mealy to wive from daseseties
bet to keep open_ the stop every piece le whieh
Imbibed P

range .
of the few perms on the stage who atter to
the moat impariset rim is their prokrion—a
theme' stt the minds of the character re-
preeseled. To explain ear reek, we will hike far
example the ammo al a donaido servant, that ekes
to whim, be eargatissel herguage, the term " Abi-
VilLsio PeetalY IpplieL -no kartistio actress
the eherester its a lead trade, cotton eown
wears li meet hesswiag little sop, rakishly pissed 1
upon the hash et her head. • reel black silk arm,
with two natty *de pea s% late which her hail,
are perpetually "trivia( ; re rigging sad Soares
about the doge, and islet hallarker to her megter,
er any of her garden Is Maths, demean hermit is
themes& importer led nit Mbar owner. The
whole eseougdea is very, piggery and mat
thoreekesa‘matigeol eel vaaaterll. Let as
sow the mete darmate in the heads of
Mrs. , rd. beheld, there enters urn the
step a dirty, rraly woman, with
dry rusty-Whig hair, brought up to •
knob at the Irk of her head, but=
in untidy serape ever her hoe. Her dingy
dram gam era behind, from looking several hooks ;
and alk kw ao epees, sr if she have, it is most pre.
bably roped He
sad end
ad
the string rear
her riot. Her acme see hew sad red, and is one
heed she been a bald atibledilseiteme, with which
she lee apparently aimed her het; she Ades
radar than walk, and bee dereaser is either sewed
servility or bream impinge. There is no dermamser
of pertases, so wriggfiegose esgestry ; while her
laser. is apt the Wired lieeleg et the settees hat
theimsi a=wake of the dor whir glis is
=rniilbis is 'grommets genies, sed gabs
ges;gaised as era se it is seen; hr eat ad-
mired= to emeiked by nig vividly portrayed and
=ashes us a thms little natural toadies,
We suet di have raised, hat upon which we
he=allinkriver hseleseed a mooed thought until
of alelease by the Grad Ware ee.
It ween=athe et his loses " rreeptice
teat terded his knee, and Mrs
Keay, I. kw tort, galleys the gum gift.
r lie= new that she attempts a purely
ewer; and yet is domestic solo-
era it would be gekto find her superior smog
existing artists. These who remember her Nydis,
is the Lad Dar tof Pompeii (in which she sang
Bellew's sweet Wed, "The Wind and the Beam");
Reehod Heywood in the Boat Day ; her Ser.
geent's Wile,lmr Oliver Twist, sad ahem all perhaps
her Slake, is which she Ward kW the meet pew
fret meseptieu of that strezressatisa of the nibs,
will emigres this opiniaa. also the harieree
welter when lines are se to her for detivery,
hr is additiga to a vivid mortise of the rideable%
whisk ream her to give every joke its die psis,
she has se ear fa metre, and emir delivers • lies of
fourteen het as a couples to one of ten, whisk in a
COMM piling in the pre/sera. She was the prin-
cipal readieskadie. La all those barkers' of Tom Taylor
gad Akin Sahli : dlooldia,Wlatiagloa, andersile,
Voireshise mod 0r.., Thu lhoolsoaod Him &a,
which made the trees el the Lyceum Theatre while
term &deka emegemeat of bond' aid bre Ms-
baste miler Wag sad dogleg la them will kmg
be .-shared setts any bast mop of their kind.
Mies lloweed Oka Keay) was km at Ipswisk
ea
king rigkelly istrirl for a smart Magr,e
we. seeded aellei. /leery Smart, a deservedly ogle.
kaki areal peehmer. On or mare whoa
Ma. Smart paid • gilt to Yarmouth, where she had
ray pupils, she took Mies Cloward with her, and
the year lady, already full of histriode asphatises,
there went era the stage and played for three nights,
eadertakkg as the first night the arrester of Lucy
arras ia e. Maaateristg. lea the seeped Margaret
be No Saw as &gym, and the third Maria in Of
.yo limaarvas. Kw kidskin dirk having km
Ihr/egg* emiesekl, she delteneleml to take to the
ship eg • pillimisa, cad mode her Ant apprises
at the Asig Ogler brio es the 4th of Judy, 1016,
as Rodre et the sum et which dirt the otitis of
the 1F,4, Dramatis lkyister has already in-
bred es, In Jur, 11119, she was married to Mr.
=
abet that time making hie lint strides
that maker, in his profession which he hoe
at. most jesti attained. And here we will rekte
a serious ale On the fi=t measles of the
arsibtaismade publie. bill. order berand of Miss Old
l
is a fares Galled The Middle limpla,
kb week ia whieb, delivered bided the
ogees% weeright r be being iegairioglis
taw The swiree, jest put ass fir to tile fest 111
611 wisp d twe of their great famerites, task
the *An I vim as an laterregaiary of their
'Oder ea the step he had takes, sad sailed out
loudly, " Quite right, quite right, Keeky."
&a. Sines that time the err of their
gaited fortunes has bees a *sort re. Stead•
kg is the first rank of their prefessiaa, re-
spelled by all, sad thoroughly appeared by these
whe know them intimately. they have made their
way through life, snares both fame and mosey.
With tia exemption of Arby's sad the City of Lon.
des, there is not a theatre in the metreplie in which
theg have sot played, end these la ad sae in whisk
sly ham not received the kindest weirs' sad the
marks at favour at the heads of the soakage.
Crae splinted= in which they are Wt embed
to their reyormism! sharsoters; to every relation
of life their stake is high ; and so just and broarable
are they kome to he ia pecuniary matters, that it
is notations in the pretension that they have seareely
ever bees sailed upon to make • written *rage-
meat. for, merry to the gent role, they kiln
the old proverb, and " fife word bus good me
their hod"

HALL,—Naas of
pored their eneminselen in the odium sad podia of =e-
lides. sod reenived esotileetee to prootiw, ea Tholods7.
Out. 2, Int :—Zesey PhUlp lieseett, leak; Willis",
Baker, ROMs rumba. Yorkobtro ; Ilynoo kCbsflis
Cosa., Inothodwod. Some; Ralik WUSW
lkie worth, MOM; Malmo Blear, Lewin.;
Reg Wats, wton-ea-Treet; Neese Lads.
liag's Lynn, Dieellelk.
MATZ Or • atiinliAlLlNl.—.At Stases • NW dor I
ago, Jobs Swim implied et the ego se 103. Vet* withis
the Wet tweiesseethe he rei6t liwig be sees advise news
to milk taxengh the Win. Ile panned the pertain see of
We Waldo% with the megrim IS hie bowies, till their&
Hr haft *hew es httoweiles of the old ass e—s
I light line free* eeet—erhith b VIM es elleetweentieedeb•
doe, at the lass Foie Clab.-14.elewhenipeto Cirenitie.

elle has tiered be ir wretched as
that in w aim is now sating at Mary-
lon Theatre. In its most eminent perforation,
the histrionic, like the poetic art, isessitrr, jig $
and this may armasetlemably be said of Kra Keeley,
who is an " artist' is the treat sad meet legitimate
seem of the void. The pinygoere of modern Is
aaeessu axis weep any Hwwu w empeesther
pewees, Isr bet ads an sow pr.* ssaihrsd to
the espremesilatisa of a cartels Of amarftss in
broad fame. idiot give no adequate idea of the
rasp al bar bistrioals abilities. tiles is one