The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

OLYMPIC.

If the success of a comedy is to be calculated by the
laughter it produces, Its all about
Love and Jealousy,
has been a decided hit—for the audience did not laugh
with the author. They certainly
a indulged
, single incident to relieve
at his expense. Withopultotpetty freely
its dullness, without
moat
st,,ryottscription, it
or wit, which
,was net of the stalest and
(fir.
Jame piece is as
lived through five acts. The
James Browne),
follows :—Don Alvarez de Leyva
ma old fellow, marries Donna Louise (um
'ward of his, who repents her match, and is extremelyths), a
fond of flattery, and a beau; Don Alphonzo our. Clifford),
falls in love with Donna Helena (Misss Bromley), who
resides in the house of Don Alvarez. The same in-
teresting event happens between Don Miguel
It (Mr.
uld
C.
:Boyce), and Donna Violletta (Miss Charles). sho
be noticed that the gentlemen found no difficulty in
'wooing the ladies, who are all willing, though Don Miguel
is slow in perceiving that Donna Violletta is anxious be
'should run away with her, and has to be made aware of
tie fact by. the lady herself. Don Alvarez becomes
Jealous of his wife, and is made more so by meeting a
gentleman in the street, a stranger (Don Alphonso), who
con Mes to him the secret that he is about to run away
with a• lady from Alvarez's house. The Don promises
assistai ice, and hires bravos to carry of Alphonso to some
dungeon's. Alvarez comes to watch the scheme, and is
set upon by the villains in mistake, who carry him off
to the orison be had prepared for Alphonso. A servant
maid to Donna Louise, in a dark street, late at night,
having i'o particular business out, overhears her master
and a gentleman plotting an elopement. She tells her
mistress, :IDonsa Louise, where the place of rendezvous
is, and there all the parties meet, Alvarez having
been set at liberty by his servants. An explana-
tion takes place, and jealousy is at an end.
The other parties in the play have no connexion what-
rever with the plot of the piece, and seemed lugged in to
'make a show. But the comedy was•not complete with-
out being " high," and accordingly the servant men and
maids fall in love with each other, and are made jealous
WY seeing his or her "adored one" talking—most inno-
erantly to be sure--to somebody they had no right to talk
to without leave and license. Our author, though spar-
ing of Lis sentiment and wit, is not a niggard in bestow-
ing happiness on others, and being an anti-Malthusian,
the piece winds up with five marriages and a dance. The
entertainme taS wound up with A Grand Operatic Chore-
graphic Ah'eys)rical
formerlesque Address from the pen of the
by piece, viz.,
author of the
Bolton. Th is was Mr. George
means the worst part
of the amusemont proxividr.encionfonior the
. evening. It consisted
in an address rea 11 by
and Drury er°ll,the flight of the drama
from Covent Gar, ie. n
~!tne, its refuge at the
rested
dht from theace to
Haymarket, and i is subsequent
Sadler's Wells, until it finally
at the Olympic.
Genius (Mrs. Y. Beve.,ley) then appeared upon
managersupon the stage,
and entered into cony ersation with different
upon the taste of the day, and the decline
Mr. Hollingsworth, dressed as Mr. Lumley,of
the drama.
in ha; td shows to her Opera (Miss Bromley), with baton
(Miss Mercer). Opora performed her par and
Mallet
she was loudly encored ; she certainly so well that
great truth and feeling. After aofnumber
raang with
cha-
racters are introduced, designed to mimic
some
of the vocal favourites of the Opera House,
A number of dances are performed, representing those;
performed ei:sewhere, viz., the " pas de seduction," the
" Pas de ex tas e," and the " pas de quatre." The piece
Concludes with a. prophecy (by Genius) that the taste
for these wo'ald vanish, and the drama would be restored
!,0 its origi°paling IL -nal: state.'• A pretty seenib effect is then produced
r 'la stand revealing a fine bustof Shakepeare
id the u,mai ~,ecmpaniments of red and blue fire.
It
Would be hardly' fair to conclude without saying that
the actors s ' the p
Power arts alloted to them with much
_ Ustainea
er and ability. As to the scenery, it was in general
Superior to what is fotind in minor theatres.

S .TRAND.
1434 f• ippe commence cf his summer campaign here
and commenced by lighting up his temple of
beZe by upistol shot. He bred, and behold 250 candles
n le ligihted at once. Paul Bedford should have

been there to have given his favourite word of command,
" Blaze away," for M. Philippe would have obeyed it to
the very letter. Another marvel which M. Philippe in-
troduced last night was his grandmother's cap, and cer-
tainly his grandmother must have been the most won-
derful of womankind—the cap of Fortunatus was a
more ordinary article of manufacture compared to
the cap of M. Philippe's grandmother ; that cap
alone is in itself an inheritance, and the bon-
bons, and the coffee, and the good things of all
sorts which M. Philippe produces and distributes
among his friends, were last night in greater quan-
tity and greater variety than ever. What an invalu-
able man he would be as magician to an exploring party
in the back woods, or to an emigrant party to Oregon, or
even to attend an invading army. The commissariat
department might be done away with entirely, if ex-
plorers, and emigrants, and armies could secure the ser-
vices of such a magician as M. Philippe, who can, no
doubt, at any time, extemporise stores stocked to an
unlimited extent in the bush or in the desert.

ASTLEY'S.
This favourite place of amusement well sustains its
long established character as the principal equestrian
establishment in the British empire. Last night the
spirited manager of this theatre, in conformity with his
usual custom, produced a novel and original equestrian
spectacle for the Easter holidays, which is entitled
The Arab Steed, or the Pearl of the Euphrates. It

combines the interest of a romantic story, crowded with
stirring events, with the gorgeous scenery and decora-
tions which are peculiar to Asiatic exhibitions. The
drama is from the pen of Mr. Leman Rede. It com-
mences with a view of the desert near the mouth of the
Euphrates, where Arrac, " the Son of the Desert," was
resolved to dwell, and not accompany his tribe, who
were about to set out with their steeds, baggage, &c., to
dwell in the sunshine of Caliph Omar's power. Ac-
cording to an old tradition it was affirmed that upon
the last steed of pure Arab blood, and the last of a
great tribe, being left alone, wandering in the desert,
the Caliph's power would be at an end. This appre-
hension so worked upon the Caliph Omar that he
sent one-half of his courtiers to obtain the Arab steed, in
the possession of Arrac, which he fancied was the
one referred to in the tradition. Arrac refused the
request, and was in consequence surrounded by the
troops of Omar, who marched him off a prisoner.
A council was held by Omar, at which Arrac and his
family were assembled as prisoners. Arrac at length
brings forth his steed, and after declining the most
tempting offers made to him, for the steed is condemned
to death, and his wife, son, and daughter are kept
prisoners, notwithstanding the most earnest interces-
sion by elim, the nephew and successor of the Caliph,
on behalf of Zillah, the daughter of Arrac, with whom be
has fallen in love. In the meantime the noble animal,
as if prompted by instinct, bounds off from the guards
by whom he is surrounded—makes a sudden and
marvellous escape, and flies back to the desert with the
speed of lightning. After a variety of thrilling incidents
which were depicted with great power, Llaba Louri,
the Arabian Amazon, calls up her guard of female
warriors, who like true daughters of the desert, vow that
that they will avenge the wrongs of Arrac, the son of
the desert. The Arab regains his steed, vengeance is
wreaked on the Caliph, the palace and round tower are
fired, the fortress is demolished, and after the most
deadly encounters and sanguinary conflicts between the
Caliph and his myrmidons on the one side, and Arrac
with the brave Amazonians on the other, the curtain
falls on the triumph of the tribes, and the victory of
might over right. Barney Brallagan, from Ballyragget,
who was wrecked and thrown on the coast near the Ca
liph's Court, while on his way to a pearl fishery, sus-
tains the principal portion of the underplot, and keeps
the house in a continued roar of laughter. Some of the
scenes, and particularly the one where Arrac and the
perishing camel are discovered in the endless desert, are
very splendid. Indeed, the whole arrangt•ments reflect
the greatest credit on the management, and we venture
to predict a long and successful run for this gorgeous
and interesting spectacle. The evenings entertainments
were concluded with the laughable afterpiece of For-
tune's Frolic.