The Sun.
London, England, 1813-10-08 00:00:00

THE TFI'EATRE..

CoVEnt-Gannatc,--We have either utterly mis-
itonceived the characters so admirably. drawn by
SnaxasPEAus in his Moor of Venice, or the Play
of Othello was last night very indifferently, per-
formed at this Theatre.• Mr. CatqwaY made his.
secon4 appearance on the London thiartlS 'as the
Moor—a-Mrs. FAUCIT, front Norwich., her debut
as ..)esdeinona, and Mr. EGERTON* performed the
part which' We have been accustomed to call logo.
With clue politeness, we will, in our strictures,
give precedence to the Lady. Mrs. FAUCIT is a
-title woman : she has good eyes, and white and
even teeth ; and, like most females possessed of
such ad.-mirages, right well she knows it. But
inifortinotely, thongh languishing, smiling, and
ogling, are excellent qnalifications for genteel
•coniedy, 'they do not accord with the character of
the sweet, the simple, th 4 unaffected, the tender
D4deraiiino---olie Of the loveliest pictures of fetni-
- nine grace that ever I'oct drew. When Mrs. F.sucur
therefdre twinedahoutherhusband, coquetted and
'lavished all the blandishments in her power, her
`stile ofaeting would have been tuhydraide in an in.
telligent eourt ezan—would have even befitted a Bea-
trice Or a
,Rosulind, but it was utterly' unsuitable for
a f/e.vdemona, or an Imogen: She-really out-atlituded
C6NWAY and once or twioe, when they Were
loving, instead of the rough soldier and uncour'ly
Moor and the gentle and artless Di stieniona,' there
was such a display of polhshed movements and mazy
cirelings, that we imagined we were looking at
a Maitre tie Dance and a- hoarding-school Miss
pacing a minuet. The great fault. of Mrs, FAuetr
is that of over-action. Let her remember that
extravagant gesticulation belongs to the depart-
'eat at Opera, and not toSn'ArtilskA KB—scarcely
to English Comedy ; and she wilt prove herself,
though in a very different line from that in which
she appeared last night, a great acquisition to the
Metropolitan Stage..., - •
Mr. CONWAY'S Othello confirmed Our opinion
that a considerable time 'must elapse Wore he can
takethe lead in Tragedy. lie is the child of
`tittuly and application, and has done much towards
improving those bounties which nature has be-
Brit wed.upon him. But he wants that, which no
study can sup ply, and without which.' no man can-
ever be a really great actor—he' wants feeling--
and his very diligence has injured him by con-
firming him in artificial habitswhich are so rooted
as to offer a great bar to his future improve-
Mem. Every word and 'syllable has its appro-
priate gesture—he is the Flero of Particulars. By
this we lose all that breadth (as a painter would
say) and graudeur of general effect which sloes
not despise minor embellishMents, but which does
not dwell upon them to such a degree of minute-
ness as to destroy the character of the whole.----
Thus 'Mr. CONWAY, when he comes across the
word " love,:" or ! pity," or "sorrow," although
in the middle of a passage, the • entire scope and
tendency of which Is to express hate, or re,
verge, Or anger, is, sure to dwell upon these
terms in tender and whining natents
though appropriate per se, are' misplaced frinn
their position. Almost all his defeetl maly be trac-
ed to this source. As for his direct imitations of
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hnnon (t'lt'iutetrth6euYilt4
rambled that adiaired performer.
Of EasaTON's lago we are loath to speak. tk
literally made nothing of 'it, ,and had we never
seen it played before, we would have had no tea-
son to imagine that it was a part one whit more
prominent than that of Ladovico !