Star.
London, England, 1804-01-24 00:00:00

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DittiaT-Latia.—Lall night The lray he Keep flue
Was repeated; and the Houfe was crowded; for
Cad:relies followed, foi-the t Bth time. This charm-
lag Ballet Pantomime grows daily upon the public.
favour. Independently of the very Intcrefting. and
Imple manner, in which the (tory is cond utled,and the
beauty and clafGcal purity of the ornamentarpart, it
polfelfes the foperior merit of originality, and is indeed,
in a certain 14e, a moitprions, and, we think, effeitual
attempt to reform the nage. It has (hewn that good
tenfe, polithed feeling, and curreiff tatte, are not ne•
cefarily inadmable in a Chriamas entertainment
And, we truff, that at the touch of this beautiful Fairy
thole farragoes of buffoonery and mere (how will be
*baaillsed from our. yheattes.

The words of the 'tongs are fink, grammar, free
from affcaation. and full of beautifid
which is all that can be expeded, and more than we
generally find
We hope to fee Ws. Mouirraia toots refume her
aijginsl charader of Penis.
VOVIIIIT-GARMIN.—The e Henry IF.
was again performed lad Might. If at is tot fo
itriking end full of interellint events as the Firil, it
is more ;tiding and indrudlivt. If it dots not pot-'
lets fo much comic humour, or snore the fpeaator's
Mind with Co much terror and pity, it is more re
markable for nice difedmination of charaaer, and vs-
tied hides of dorettic portraits. We were there-
Lire pltafed with its revival.
Superior as this Play is. to many of our immortal
tads the delicacy of the 'prlfeet age requires dust it
Id tiqdergo not only curtailment, but alteration.
Of the fonder. Mr. Katsina bas not been fparin in
(owe partn 'others he has done too little. The
sntroduaion of De Tearjhott, a, common drumpet,
fitting on FaHlaff's 'knee, in an attitude not the moll
:delicate, is unjulliAable. One of our brother Critics
has oisfereed, that this charaaer 4 ought to be entire.
ly omitted." We will go further, and repeat what'
ors heard in the hoof% that it is an infult to a Bikini
audience.
The alterations are confined to the tranfpofition of
a few fames. To this we have tome objettioni. The
Zing appears is, the original in die third ad. at one
o'clock in the mooting, invoking is gentle Deep to,
Weigh his eye-liits down," before the defeat of the,
tads is Yorkilure. In the fourth aft he is repre-
Grated by SIIMUISPI6III as receiving the welcome
news of the reftoration of Pease. Thefe two fcenes
arc now thrown into one, to form the fourth att. In
the original the Lord Chief "dike, on hearing the
death of the King, eiipeas to tole his place it leaft.
■ I woatd bb may*, bad card sae ariti
The facia, that I arid? did his life.
Hach made toe opal so all Isdarics."
e new King is immediately mtroduced, and after
an explanation, forgives the Chief Jolliet, gives him
his hand, and re-appoints him to his dignity. In die
IA (cent he commiffions him, officially, to fpeik
to Falfie who is (cut to the Fleet. But Mr. Kart;
aLt leis, with thi. lilt fcene, and makes Hasty V.
without previous explanation, acknowledge that high
*Seer My Lord Chief Joiner. (peat to that vain
man l" The difaPpointed Knight and his atlonifhed
friends are difatiffed a .then 414 comes the reconci.
liation 1 The new King appears in this ftene with
his Ctinvit on fah head, and lays, that titer 13it earriaa-
tie, he will call the whole State together. But pro.
*ably this is the fault of die Manager, and jiot of the
Editor.

In the performince, Mi. Coots is the proMintot
thornier. We think be is more matter of Fa f 4

it; this. than the First part of Harry He difplai;
smote fleaibility of feature here, than he is generally
thought capable of arming. He reminded us
fomettmes of what we have heard of Ql.ita, and
inmetimes of what we have Peen in Hsaneasnm.—
His voice never failed him, and his tones were hap
pily modulated. In the laft part of his.firft interview
with the Cle/ Jufyilr, he was particularly happy.—
When he answered the }WWI, "Will I live I" he
was irrefiftibly pleating, and in Come of his foliloquies
he was highly impreffve. If an actor is permitted
to " tpealt more than is let down for him," we would
Tecommend to him the prefervation of a pillage in
the original, which is paired into a common laying :
" lam not only witty in myfelf, but the caufe that
wit is in other men."

Mr. KEMP, R claims our next notice. Hit head-
drefs was Admirably continent with that in which
Wesry IV. is painted. The night teens *as beauti-
fully charafterixed with lamps, an hour glafs, a cru-
cifix, beads, and every part of appropriate coflume,
and furniture and architeaure. &tidily (peaking,
we might objeft to the gtare of lights on one fide of
the Rages as incontinent with the time and place.—
Mr. Ktimista's monotone and plaintive manner was
here produtlive of a happy effed. He difplayed
flinng traits of peculiar an. We admired him in
the expreiGvn of

" He Das a ter far pity, and a band
Open as day for inching charity."
In his folicitude :about the Crown, lie evinced great
force. His pules, though natural, made the tcene
fomewhat heavy. He is fond of tlrofe readings,
Which make 3nAll ssee•lt I mon incnrreet : hence he
fat's •s in the calmed and me:ADO night."
Of Mr. C. Kiser.' the left we fey the better.—
He has neither cafe in the light, nor dignity in the
ferious part. He left out two lines of greater impor-
tance than the omilSon of COOK t
Lean gmmaadlain6• know the grave loth gape
for thee thrice wider :km for other men."
On this the Knight advances to reply to what he
conceived to be a plcafant conceit of the King, when
the latter cats him off with

Reply not to me wttb a taal•born jelt.
The want of the two lines made Cones's attion
ridiculous : but that is not to be laid to the charge
cf the aftors.

The parts of Prince
.7•4 r and of li'flim:ret,mel were
done with great fpiilt and propriety by Nidlrs.lis
tom and H. Slow's,.

Etatur had great merit in IF,O?L'e Indeed
he doe► well
cvser appeatcd to leis advantage than in 04%.
Nnt withstanding the peculiarities of this character, to
ado.4ably drawn by SHARE ssssss and fo humour.
eutly deferibed by the Kts;3lv, the is a gentle-
man. Bat isfuttoss makes of him what he makes
of po',„iss io Hatufer, a low buffoon. There is one
saw., who would bars bcen a tit reprefcntatirc of the

Cloncefieribire 'Squire. Bat he has left Covent
Garden Theatnu ;-• • . .
Mrs. BIVIKLIT felt hada( by Ao meina at bent
in fochsan indecent: elsarafler. . She defervm great
praife fat not nia.kirig is more .
The igeAl 'toffee yea fpiridefs. • the fame ire may
fay of Bardolph. Thepart of Pifiel *ha not perfealy
mnderflood. Stuttering:is not his foie quality. We
know not wby be should hats an artificial more of long
promixrance. • , .• •
• The Play *ferns to be ofteoreprefented. But
the applaufe, when it was given oat after the firft
time, was not unmixed ra4th clifappmbigtion. LaR
night forge part of it *tat of heavily. •