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THE THEATRES.
DRURY-LANE.
Drury-lane Theatre opened last evening for the
winter season, with Balfe s chef (Failure, the Bohe-
mian Girl, and a new grand ballet, in three acts, en-
titled The Corsair. The plot of the ballet is taken
from Lord Byron's poem, and the original has been
closely followed. The subject of the first act is
the parting of Conrad and Medora. At the
rising a the curtain, we find ourselves
amidst the wild romantic scenery of the Corsairs'
Island. A prize has been brought in and the Greeks
hold high festival. This festival gives occasion for
the introduction of a very pretty divertissement, in
which Mademoiselle Auguste Delb s (pupil of Mon-
sieur Albert) made her debut on the English stage,
and a most successful debut it was. This young lady
promises to be, ere long, at the head of her profession;
there is a neatness and precision about her
dancing, which prove that she has been
well taught, and in the rapidity of her
movements (her feet literally twinkle), and the
charming abandon of her manner, she reminded us
not unfrequently of Cerito. Her Tarentalla with
Delferier would have been quite worthy of the fasci-
nating Neapolitan herself. Add to this that Made-
moiselle Delbes is very young and very pretty, and
we think that we are not risking much in prophecying
that she will become a universal favourite. A Pas de
Deux by Montessu and Clara Webster, decidedly the
first of English dancers, was also introduced into this
divertissement, and was much and deservedly ap-
plauded; and a new Polka by Mademoiselle
Delbes, Monsieur Delferier, and the corps de
ballet, concluded the divertissement. The act con-
cludes with the parting of Conrad and Medora. The
scene of the second act is laid in the Hall of " Seyd
of Pacha," where he holds
" A feast for promised triumphs yet to come,"
and this feast is made the occasion for another diver-
tissement, in which, after a very pretty danse d' Oda-
lisques by Mademoiselle Delbes and the corps de ballet,
Gulnare is introduced in the person of the majestic
Adele Dumilatre. We remember, when Adele Du-
milatre appeared at the Opera two seasons since,
she was not unfrequently reproached with
want of animation. Her Gulnare is certainly not
open to such reproach. It is the very Gulnare of the
poet. She looked, in the opening scene, the very
personification of haughty beauty. Her grand Pas de
Deux with M. Desplaces, which is introduced into
this scene, quite took the house by storm ; her tours
de force in this pas was truly astonishing. They were
not merely tours de force, but tours de grace also ;
and as she bounded across the stage, seeming to float,
sylph-like in the air, she was greeted with the most
rapturous applause ever heard within the walls of a
theatre. The act concludes with the attack on the Pacha's
palace, and the defeat of Conrad. In the third act we
find ulnare interceding with the Pacha for the
pardon of Conrad ; and here Adele Dumilatre
introduces her Pas de Seduction—a pas the most
fascinating that can possibly be imagined. The
Pacha, however, is obdurate, and the ballet ends
by the murder of the Pacha by Gulnare, and the
destruction of his palace by the comrades f Conrad,
who arrive just as he is set at liberty by Gulnare,
the fate of poor Medora having been previously
shadowed forth to him in a dream. At the conclu-
sion, Adele Dumilatre was loudly called, and received
with all the honours. This ballet was most success-
ful ; indeed, it would have been surprising if it had
been otherwise, for it has in it every element of
success. The story illustrated is well known.
This is a most important feature towards securing
the success of a ballet, inasmuch as the audience un-
derstand it from the beginning, and an interest is
consequently at once awakened. The plot is well de-
veloped, the scenery is beautiful, the costumes are
magnificent, and the music is appropriate. Taken as
a whole, this is by far the best ballet that has yet
been produced at Drury-lane, and there cannot be a
doubt of its having a long run. The house was
crammed in every part. Previous to the commence-
ment of the opera, the National Anthem was sung by
the whole of the corps operatique, the solo parts being
sustained by Miss Romer, Miss Rainforth, and Mr.
W. Harrison.