The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-15 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

d ~ALft" an absence of upwards of six years from the Lon•
• weds, Mrs. SLOMAN made her appearance here last
We 11,4 -13elvidera. As we never saw this lady before,
veneer no means of ascertaining whether she has ad.
114,,,--`'n or retrograded in her art. 'We should incline,
jii°,j.,:vera to the former opinion, for she displayed great
Go ?ti'k
th IP, a perfect acquaintance with stage practice, and
cl:pconsiderable share of tenderness. Still, her Belvt-
-67 Was not on the whole what it should be. It was
With at in that melting softness—that intense sensibility
t, Which Otway has invested the character. The
beer "a who would p'ay it adequately should give
41) feelings fair play—surreorier herself up to the
4. Wee of the moment. She should be throughout
audience to approve or condemn her. Mrs. SLOMAN,
t44t!ackily, never forgot this. She was too sophisticated--
mstudied. Art crushed out nature in her bosom. The
ores" got the better of the woman. She delivered the
10,:e impassioned passages with an evident eye to " three
of applause ;" and died elaborate!), insane, with a
the to a re-appearance before the audience at the close of
Again,e Play. she misapprehended the spirit of one
Iti° of the most obvious passages. For instance, where
p ~per informed her that he bad just engaged in a con-
t° Murder the senators, and among others o;,,
141,,P'414 she replied, " What, murder my father .
,411d,riedt?Lenriebogf pathetic deprecation, whereas her voice should
Late
sh °rake forth convu sively, as if half choked with the
emotions of her heart. Her allusions to Portia,
"remember, twelve," were her most successful
hits,ol e impressive rr.anner, in particular, in which
ittieDdeliTh vcred the latter sentence, made evidently a deep
k'ie.sl°4 on the audience. When she next attempts
WiGscidera
we would advise Mrs. SLOMAN to take less
4 as an actress, and trust more to her own impulses as
asw,oll'an• To be over-elaborate is sometimes as bat l
4 be
of
it over-negligent. She is. not without talent
high order, and needs only a little more ease
.105• nature to become an ornament to her profes-
With In person, she is tall, slender, and graceful,
%tin a regular and delicate
.cast of features, somewhat
s, "IY at variance with a vi,tice that is roug.h,
_and at. times
ter4,Pasculine. Mr. COOPER S Jujfier was the best charac-
th-„,ais gentleman has ever. played. It was in strict keeping
sibi,4hout, and surprised us with the fulness of its sen-
sku'l.Y• The part is one that all men take a pride in
peat, if to speak a word in its behalf were to im-
s,„l4.° their own manhood. This is the finest, reluctant -slur ;
rottent to its perfect truth we ever met with. The
itab,,,j4TY of men are .Liffiers, though they will never ac-
th,„"lcdge it to thetnserves—still less to the world ; and
eh, who are loudest in expressing their scorn of the
itt,,sl"ar, though they no doubt think themselves sincere,
rtir,ht" thus vehement, merely because their own sense of
shlyl:4'°d has received a shock. We cannot speak as iavour-
the w" could desire of MACREADY'S Pierre. It was not
it Was one, gay, boldfaced villain" that Otway has drawn ;
Pry,: "t open and straight-forward entaush, but con-
kit: rat, Cr the idea of a moody, moralizing enthusiast.
litts know nothing that can justify an actor in thus
efity:l'ne the spirit of his author's text. If he feel
tequi.°4l that he have not within himself the necessary
44 At t., ,r
such a part, he should throw it up, and
ii,kte „„
roPitc ite other that liarmoniz-s better with his own
is 1-,:turn of mind. Possibly Mr. MACREADY thinks
but
tli-i re is more intellectual than Otway's. May be
BeGtlr't is scarcely an improvement for all that. This
chaira delivered the bluff, stern, sarcastic points of the
1/11ata;"nto With marked indifference. In that well-known
Rats die in holes and corners, dogs run mad,
cfs h ,4an knows a braver remedy for sorrow,"
tast'rae eoldly just as it lie were stating some plain
,thc 11°I'fact—a'n axiom in Euclid, for instance ; whereas
convey a striking c ntrast, the extremes of con.
!art' :" lofty feeling, and should he de iv, red with pro.
44' emphasis. I
e • was YOUNG'S great recomen-
m
t? this character, that he u layed it just as lie found
heightening nor. der, ssing his ant, or's med..
AIACREADY, in his horror of b. ing thou hr
1341 t.t4tar, has wandered altogether, from the track cf his
o'''or into a strange, wild by-ath of his own, an
Ptlt:l,ue4tly, like Mil on's fiend, when be got on sortie
gatia;' Points of divinity, on which he was roost undo
14,1 '° show his own original powers of argument,
that 0" end in wandering nii z s lost." It is singular
4s' th.
ePart of Mr. 31.acitEaDy's performance which
cares,i" applauded last night, was that where. he walks
4tbr stage to xcution, ad—says nothing. An
he own timees,e according to Pope, was applauded
sine reason.
WI) n tut did he speak ? No, not one syllable."
In:Never, we condemn AIAcsEADY's Pierre, we
je' • D4t;Pt closing scene. It was really magnificent.
tc„''m'''n and execution were alike perfect. It was
nati:,7ciently
thn , %vitt
ni,,icturesque to work vividly on the isnagi.
a "fat be raying ail far fetched conc,eit, or gro-
coggeration. 0, Si sic crania. Ihe tragedy
411 't was listened to with marked attention by a
Lau,h

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.
of .404 xtt`o► Who lately undertook the maudlin
ht. c'oaracter
tarei4 aPPeared here as Romeo last night. In all the
bt ,141"1, of his art, this gentleman leaves little or nothin
dr6ei -"ired ; but he is deficient in genius, still ntm e
IP'ith "11 la sensibility. Portions of his Romeo told well
111 e, othe audience but as a whole, it went off but
uility-tki,REN Was a' reap' ectable Mercutio—but respec
that i 5 to he looked for in one of the most msrked
Shaltspeurian characters? 01 Miss Pntwrs,
her
ttrfetm%i„t 4 !luperfluous here to snake mention, as h
,tioZic"ce in the character is already quite sufficiently
It Was as excellent as ewer.
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