The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-28 00:00:00

OLYMPIC.

Mr. Plancht having resigned the crown of bur-
lesque, sad retired in a peen old se and full of honours,
the TIMM sceptre appears with one amsent to hare been
plead in the bands of Mx. Robert &mesh, whose services
are always retained at the Olympia, where, eince the old
Vsstria days, this specie. of entertainment has been most in

vogue. If Mr. Broogh has not the elegance, neatness, end
poish of his predecessor, his wit is brighter and bolder, his
Mire tearer and mare trenchant, hie jokes move daring, and
hepouseme a more intimate acqulntance with the topics and
esylngs of the day. Equity with Mr. Plumb., his humour
is suggestive and reflecting, and hence his puns are
not the goers word jingles of some burlaeque writers,
but after the ear boa been tickled by the double sound the
double meaning will beer closer examination. Mr. Drough
Is also much to be commended for having rid himself en-
tirely of a certain aluminas and esoteric *mot which pre-
vailed in his earlier writings, and which, though ticomaiinving
exquaite amusement to some twenty people, was utterly un-
intellgible to the remainder of the audience.
The new extravaganza I. InUtled The Apo of Barone, or
tie Adulated lyre, and the following is a sketch of the
plot :—lmpeamioso, Doge of Daralto (Mr. Robson), has a
step-deughter, Cepriccia (Mime Wyndham), se suitors for
whose hand mimes princes have arrived at court. The
Doge gives them to understand that, according to an old
prophesy, if ever the Prlitosse is made to shed a tear he, her
stepfather, will be changed into a hideous monster. The
Prince's erring, and is introduced to the various claimant.
for her hand, but she refers all, se none of them equal an
ideal staniard of insecelins beauty which she has seen in a
deem, and determined to possess. This bees ideal, however,
presently arrives In the paean of one Filo, a sailor, end the
Princam welcomes him with delight, but after examining
her eyes be declines the proposed alliance, and departs. At
this Capriccio is so enraged that she loses all command over
herself, and from those eyes which sever have wept since the
hour of her birth drop teare—of pearl! We now see whence
the late Samuel Bap A plagiariud his celebrated
lines, the " chemises magic set " has " crystal-
limed the sacred tressurs," and Caprkda's tears
come pattering down upon the stage like a shower of hail-
stone.. The Doge is at first frantic with rage, bat when he
perceives ths quality of Oilers &fitment his avarice Is
awakened, and he tries by leery brutality in his power to
keep his step-daughter perpetually in a lachrymose state,
that his treasury may profit thereby. The story here be-
comes much Involved ; the various culture of the first scene,
encouraged by the wicked fairy, Morgans., return and pram
for the Princess's hand. Ullb also returns, protected by the
good fairy Benavolentia. The Doge goes mad, end wanders,
Lear-like, through the woods. Finally, the 'pelts of the
wicked fairy are broken, the PtinC*lle• tears again WON=
liquid, sad there I. a hippy conclusion. Mr. ➢rough has
not been so happy se usual in his selection of hie subject,
nor in the songs which he has parodied, the only two encores
—one plead by Mr. Robson, and the other, "Kale Ram-
say," by Miss Cotterell—being due more to the sprit with
whieb they were delivered than to any intrinsic merit of
their own. The dialogue, however, bristles with sparkling
joke end telling allusion. Take se a sample these two line.
"Tsar pikes and Wheel' to prepare forthwith,

Bend to Vesuvius fora H•Mbert &silk I"
sad mast hits at the Leviathan, Big Ben, the organ
=lsaac% the monetary crisis, kc.
Hr. Robson, more admirably made up than even he has
ever bees before, played the Doge with that mixture of
besmear sad pathos which he has made his eperiality ; hie
bunt. of passion, Owlish quite as relative as ever, were a
little subdued in toots, sad the physical strain apes the
nerves and energke wee less spparent. Hiss Wyadhant
looked very handwrite and acted with much spirit as the
Princes', while Miss Cotterill, a recent acquisition to the
theatre, sad a belle of no ordinary beauty, sang charmingly
the little Neaps allotted te bee. Mr. Horace Wigan, ton de.
serves a weed of wag semmeadation for his carafe] mks-

up ead excellent mks la a very small put. The teat some
displeyed =eh nine end good Wets on the part of Mr
Orsy, the mak 'AR

Harlequin's woad brings dotes the name of Shakespeare,
which Clown mays he will awry to Sadler's Wells. The
compliment, though self-given, was not unmerited,
sod the audience applauded. Mies Caroline Parkes,
who was the Beauty" in the fairy tale, became
the graceful Columbine, Mr. C. Penton the agile
Harlequin, sod Kr. Dentin the fenny Clown of the bai-
l:squish& Mr. Naylor reformed se Pantaloon. There wail
Do carrot and at throwing on the stage, there was leas thro-
b/beg sad posturing than is usual on them condom, and the
sadism generally aemned to approve the change. The con-
cbading some, the " Rosario= in Fairy Land," was at the
some character as those which receded it—glittering, gang,
sad peron• To Mr. Greenwood belong the merit of the
rural annagement of the pantomime, which,both as a spec-
Melo and as a herlequinade, ...brined, as it merited, a marked
mow, whir/ no doubt will be condnued to it during the
Christmas holidays.