The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-27 00:00:00

TIIEATLIES.

DRURY-LANE.— If excellent acting could
render a drama attractive a more numerous au-
dience would have attended the representation of
She Would and She Would Not last night. The
comedy is improbable, and more in tire nature of
a farce. It was written, no doubt; to afford scope
for the performers in the time of COLLEY CIBBER,
the author of the piece, and when the audience
were not so refined as they have been since
rendered by the advancement of knowledge
and the improvement of taste. It is, how-
ever, still very well calculated to gratify a
mixed audience, among whom there can hardly
he expected a predominance of critical judgment.
The Comedy was on this occasion well supported
throughout. DOWTON was quite at home in Don
Manuel; HARLEY equally characteristic in Trap-
panti ; Miss KELLY a most spiriied and admirable
personation of Hypollita; and Mrs. DAVISON was
not less successful in representing Viletta. These
are the principal parts, and those of less weight
were not injudiciously assigned or supported. The
audience considerably increased at half price,'
and the Comedy seemed to afford general amuse-
ment.

COVENT•GARDEN.—The Tragedy of Othello,
brought forward with appropriate dresses, last
night introduced a Mr. FurzliAssn's, as the sable
hero of the Piece. This Actor, it seems, cause
from Canterbury, and, if report says true, the
theatrical company of that city recommended
him by a Round Robin to the Managers of this
Theatre. Such a recommendation shows the li-
berality and kindness of the subscribers, and is
morally favourable to the character of the Per
former. It was also sufficient to justify the Ma-
nagers in giving him a trial. Mr. FurznAattls pos-
sesses a lofty figure, suitable to the character of a
renowned warrior. His face, as far as we could
discover it through the medium of its dark co-
louring, seemed capable of expression. His de-
portment was rather the expression of his feelings
than of elaborate study. Ills voice is not musical,
but is not defective in power when exerted in
passages of an energetic kind ; but he has a prac-
tice of sinking it at the end of a sentence, a prac-
tice, indeed, too common on the stage. In the
first three acts he sustained the part with feeling
and with energy, and received much applause.
When the half-price visitors appeared, some per-
haps,d runk, and others sportiveg not maliciow,he
was coarsely, and, in some respects, brutally treat-
ed. The part of Othello is very difficult to sustain
with due effect,and much allowanceshould he made
for the awe and fear which must necessarily ope-
rate upon the mind of an actor in his first ap-
pearance before a London audience. We know
nothing of Mr. FITZHARRIS, but we think that
he was not only ill-treated by a part of the au-
dience, tutbulent enough to disburb the whole,
but by our cotemporaries of the Daily Presi.
Mr. FITZLIARKIS had the merit of not copying
any popular individual, but of acting frOm his
own impression of the arduous character vthich
lie undertook, and we have little doubt that a-fu-
ture trial would enable him- to snake a more fa-
vourable impression on a just and candid audience.
Mr. \VAUDK, in lago, acquitted himself better and,
with more ease than on any previous occasion. Mr.
COOPER'S CaiSiO was marked by all his usual
good sense. Mrs. SLOMAN was interesting in.
Desdeinona, and the other characters were pro-
perly allotted. A very numerous audience.