Star.
London, England, 1828-01-22 00:00:00

ADELPHI.

There was both novelty and variety in the entertain-
ments provided atihis little Theatre yesterday evening,
the effect of which was perceptible in a house crowdeu
to excess from the commencement of the performance.
The first of the new pieces (there were two) produced
on this occasion, is entitled Paris and London, and turns
on the adventures of au English Nobleman in those
capitals—his entanglement with a dancer at the o.leon
—and his extrication from the ties of illicit affection
through the agency of his wife, who secretly follows
Lim, assumes several disguises, and resorts to a vatiety
of expedients for the purpose of effecting her object.—
There is an underplot grounded on the loves and jea-
lousies of a French friseur and his mistress, and an
English coachman and his wife. YATISS, who per-
formed the part of the sentimental perruquier, was
exceedingly amusing, as was the character of his
clsere envie, the Soubrette, in the hands of Mrs. Humans.
WILKINSON played the Coachman, and was not in the
wrong box. In addition to the characters already al-
luded to, there are a few others, whose use is rather
to bring into action the talents of the company col-
lected at this Theatre, than to forward the busi-
ness of the piece. Among these we may include the
part of an English actor allotted to Reeve, and a Car
tam Gobble, in which Mr. GALLOTT succeeded in eating
his way into the favour of the audience. Mrs. YATES
played the injured wife with her usual grace and
sprightliness; and was particularly happy in the dis•
guises which she assumed, with a view to discover and
correct the errors of her faithless spouse. The piece is
written in a manner sufficiently amusing, and appeared
to afford considerable gratification to the audience. In
his characters front low life the author has been tolerably
successful; not so in those which he has attempted to
derive from a higher class of society. The dialogue is
frequently coarse, and is a little too broad; and the
delivery of the puns (which are numerous and anti-
Rimed) must have tasked the intrepidity of the actors
to the utmost. The scenery is eminently beautiful.
The second is a little piece in one act, derived from
the French, which, if we mistake not, has been already
performed under a different name at one of the larger
Winter Theatres. The Adelphi version of the story
bears the title of Firs Move, and is simply the history
of the disinterested relinquishment of his mistress by a
generous soldier, who has considerable claims on her
affection, in favour of a former admirer, who was the
lady's •' first love." The piece is of the sentimental
class, and not of the best or most natural class of senti•
ment neither.. But the exertions of Messrwcoosca and
Bucxyrona, and Mrs. Hunan, obtained for it a
reception to which its intrinsic merits would scarcely
hare entitled it.

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