The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

No. 15,464.

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THEATRES.

which is crossed by the enmity subsisting bet Ween th
tribes to which the " Pearl " and her lover respectively
belong, and still further complicated by the arts
of a rival ; all obstacles, however, are overcome
by the- bravery and adaress of the young lover
who at tince'gams his bride and his rightful inheritance
of which lie has been defrauded by Goorg Ali Beg, the
arch villian of the piece, very effectively played by Mr.
N. T. Hicks. The scenery and whole getting up of the
piece is most creditable to the liberality and taste of the.
management. The opening scene, the Hall of Audience
of the Khan Sirafrauz, was very skilfullygrouped, and of
the rest of the scenery we may particularly mention the
ruin; of a village, kith a troken aqueduct and
lake by moonlight, the su mer camp of the
Begants, the court of the Harem of Sirafrauz, and
the last scene, the fortifications of Ilianabad. The
dresses, decorations, l miners, processions, entree and
combats, of horse and foot, and occasionally of both to-
gether, are all unexceptionable, and though we are not
sure but the piece might be curtailed in the representa-
tion with advantage, yet it has action, bustle, and inte-
rest enough to make it popular and attractive. We must
not forget to mention a song, " What is a lover, who can
tell?" very archly sung by Miss Martin, and warmly en_.,,
cored, and a very pretty and graceful fancy dance, which
was at once characteristic and-pleasing. The curtain fell
on a grand tableau of the characters, horse and foot,
amid warm and decided applause. The spectacle was
succeeded by the equestrian feats of Mr. Batty's splendid
stud of horses, and the ample evenings entertain-
ment concluded with a farce celled the Family Man. The
house was cro vded in every part.

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As the majority of an Easter audience is composed,
for the most part, of persons of junior grade in life, Mr.
Macready, not injudiciously, selected the tragedy of
Macbeth for representation last night, that drama being
throughout characterised by a great degree of simple
and palpable development. Mr. Macready perso-
nated Macbeth ; some of his readings had great
merit ; some few betokened feebleness ; but it must not
be denied, that however Mr. Macready may perchance in
isolated points to prove unpalatable, yet he so comprehen-
sively grasps the whole scope of his part, as to give
it the circular roundness of a master-piece. This
was perceptibly worked out last night. The gra-
dual declinations of the stern, honest General into the
palsying end terrified Thane, and thence into the ap-
palled and haunted King, till the closing scenes render
him mad and reckless, under the impression of guilt and
fear, powerfully, and, with propriety, were developed.
The pl,renzied excitement which he also exhibited in
the last scene, yet, with the sudden and calmed inter-
locutions addressed to the Physician, along with the
final blaze and expiry of his acting in the encounter
with Macduff, showed the true actor in a fine light
when wound up to the top of his bent. Ms mannerisms
and usual enunciations are such well-settled points
in the theatrical books that they vouchsafe no
novelty of remark ; but one touch, though among
the inferiorities of the piece, protruded like a bril-
liant : the words, " Your spirits shine through you,"
conveyed it, and was vigorously descriptive of the quick
conceptions of the murderers of his plans. Mrs. Warner
comported herself with her customary stateliness and
professional ability. The incomparable passage of " the
hand never to be sweetened," was delivered with a tone
tremulous in its beauty, and heavy with a world of sigh.
Mr. Phelps's Macduff was a spirited pourtrayal : his
" What all my pretty ones I" when the truth crushes
upon him, presented a fine idealism of manly sorrow.
The incantatory doings of the Wierd Sisters are perhaps
the most dilatory portions, and appear overmuch
turgid with chorusses. Messrs. Macretfdy and Phelps,
as also Mrs. Warner, were individually called
for after its conclusion, and the announcement
of its repetition was greeted with every applause.
A more waferish, off hand operetta than The Students
of Bonn could not have been devized for the pleasure of
ephemeral fancies. The Bonn Students, proverbially
classed under the category of Cologncse Don Juans,
enter upon foolish pranks with the school-girls of a pen-
sion or boarding-house near Bonn, aided by the arch and
iniquitous little soubrette (Therese) appertinent to that
household, who secures florin upon florin from thest
gentlemen in regard of her services with most avaricious
audacitf. The artfulness and vivacity sprinkled into
the part by Mrs. Keeley gave it great zest. The
broad humour of the whole, however, rests on the
back of a devoted old maiden, to wit, a Miss Stiffenback
(Mrs. C. Jones), who, spite of her grey forelocks, and
superannuated beauty, imagines herselt to be the ena-
moured idol of one of those gay gloriosos of Bonn.
Wicked Therese, therefore, in the plenitude of her mis-
chief, makes this promising dame the scapegoat of all the
misdoings of the young ladies and their inamoratos,
thrusts all their love-epistles into her reticule, and foun-
ders her in a host of dilemmas, which produce much
amusement. It forms a tricksy, pretty-like afterpiece.
The house was full usque ad ccelum.

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Will be performed
HANDEL'S DETTINGEN TE DEUM, and MOZART'S
SERVICE, No. XII.

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M EIE MODERRN HISTORY and CONDI-
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