The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

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HATMARKET.—" The Jealous Wife" was revived at
this theatre last evening, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean ep.
peering for the first time in the characters of Mr. and Mrs.
Oakley. Mrs. Keen's p-rformeoce was worthy of her repe-
tetion. It was an exquisite picture of the " green-eyed
monster " under a comic aspect—of jealousy in is violent
, transports and fitful changes of mood, but tell of truth,
nature, and spirit, without the slightest mixture of tragic
entrap or melodramatic exaggeration. And His. Kean had
the happy art (which few representatives of the character
have sullekatly possessed) of making Mrs. Oakley, in the
midst of her absurd crotchets and storms of passim, • very
amiable person, whose power over her husband may
easily be supposed the malt of affection more than
of fear. Mr. Beta's Oakley was a very Natin
factory piece of acting. Without presenting any remark-
ahle feature, it was quiet, intelligent, and gentlemanlike.
Mr. and Mrs. Oakley are the only parts in this play that can
be rendered effective on the modern stage, as they alone con-
tain those traits of human nature which belong to all time.
The others, Lord Trinket, Sir Harry Beagle, Squire Rus-
set, and Lady Freelme—are mere pictures of obsolete man-
oils, which (as they no longer exist in nature) the actors
cannot represent, and the audience cannot understand. The
consequence is that the play, with the exception of the MGM
between Mr. and Mrs. Oakley, moves heavily along; and
these scenes, excellent as they are are not suMdest to com-
pensate for he tediousness of the rest.
LYceUM.—" An Appeal to the Public " was made
here yesterday evening, and, having for its medium
Mr. Charles Mathews, with his pleasant, undoubting man-
ner, was not altogether unsuccessful, though the subject-
matter was light enough. Mr. Felix R•sernary, whom Mr.
Charles Mathews impersonates, is a gentleman of extreme
incontinnity of purpose, who, in his way to Doctors'-com-
mons for a license to marry a Miss Charlotte Smith, a young
provincial whom he has not seen, but whose Consols have
made her quite agreeable to him, meets, under a doorway,
where he has taken refuge from the ram, a ioniiLedsy, of
whose Consols he knows nothing, but whose toe him,
and with whom he forthwith falls in love, but, the very
heedless axone of his attentions, aids her uncon-
sciously to fled her husband, Mr. Bilberry, whom
she had married in the country without her blade' con-
sent, and then followed to London, as ignorant of the
topography of the great metropolis as Mrs. Gilbert i Beckett
the elder. This youn4 lady turns out to be nose other than
the Miss Caroline Smith whom Mr. Felix Rosemary was to
have married. Thereupon Mr. Rosemary makes an appeal to
I the public—with whom, indeed, he has been communi-
eating from time to time throughout—as to the herdahip
of his seas, and as the matter ends. The piece, et may be
imagined, is the veriest trifle, depending chiefly upon Mr.
Charles Mathews, hot to a certain extent, also, upon Min
Howard, who fills up the sketch of a mantis rustic
amusingly enough.
OLTMPIC.—A pleasing little drama, called " Ange-
line de Lis" was revived at this theatre last evening, in
which Mrs. &Ailing played the part of the heroine. The
incidents, if they deserve the name, turn upon the universal
attraction which Angeline (Mrs. Stirling), an orphan girl,
exerts upon all the men who come within the innocent circle
of her existence. She supports herself b her lam-making
ingenuity, and laments a lover slain in tittle; and at the
moment when, by • combination of fortunate circumstances
only to be met with on the stage, all her wooers, old
and young, are collected together in the night-time,
I and unknown to each other, to carry her off,
her dead lover reappears, brings the self willed
ruitors to a sense of the improprieties they were about
to perpetrate; and, after forgiving them all for their mis-
deeds, signifies his intention of making up for lost time by
espousing his faithful mistreat.. There is • good deal of that
conventional sort of pathos which has for years drawn forth
the sympathetic tears of the tender-hesrted audiences of the
minor theatres, and Mrs. Stirling adapted herself with great
skill and versatility to the exigencies of her rdle, and drew
forth the puked-handkerchiefs of her hearers with consider-
, a .le facility by mese. of her broken English, her moving
tones, and pleading looks. But there wanted • reality,
which even this stairs and charming actress could not give to
her part. She was very well seconded by Mr. Turner and
Mr. Bender m an old amorous doctor and the supposed.
slain lover. An amusing piece, called " Cousin Cherry,"
followed, in which Mr. Leigh Murray and Mrs. Stirling
acted, and which was far more =vs*/ that the aentimen
talkies of " Angeline."

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