Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-02-10

productions AMI as he was then much engaged
and probably would not soon be at leisure, he re-
turned them unhonored anil unnoticsd. The fae'
was, Mr.. Holman, was himself the author of seve.
raj dramatic prod actions, which he then was IN tho
habit Of keeping on the boards, and had but very
small disposition 10 give place TO the writings oi
competitor. We have hsd the pleasure Of reodins
these performances, and although we think they
are deficient in dramatic effect, we are ready to ad-
nit that they possess many merits. The Incidents are
happily arranged, their catastrophe unusually ef
fectve but the language OF the dialogues are often
ineitgant, unnatural and ridiculous. With little
pruning r 1m The hand OF skllfu' master, we thpk
they would he well received, and might be cousid-
cred considerable acquisitions to the reputation
ofthe American Drama.
Pierre La Mooiis, native of q Louis, Missou-
ri, but who graduated Mt Oxford, az early as
the year 1899, produced Comedy, entitled " The
Chace or a way to catch them" which he carried
to England, and offered to one OF the managers of
tie principal London Theatres, which was instant
ly accepted aud put in rehearsal, after which 1t
was once performed AMI then suppressed in conse'
duence Of the lcentous principles it incu'cated.-
The author, chagrined and distracted at the il-suc-
cess he had met with, threw himself into the
Thames, and thus put end to his miseries and
misfortupes. Some few years since the original
manuscript was found by dis,ng uished American
now in Europe, who csased it to be published. Ss-
veral copies of the work were forwarded to this
country, one Of which i. now in our possession. II
possesses To our mind more than ordinary merit.
and the dialogue IS easy and frequently elegant not
withstanding il is too often injured by roughness
which whi,, 1t discovers the genius Of the author,
speass his deficiency as a scholar.
Our townsmsn Paul Allen, so advantageously
known as poet and newspaper Editor was the
author OF two or three dramatic performances, but
a. he found they would be opposed by the malig-
nifty Of literary enemies, aud newspaper competi-
tors, he never could be persuaded to bring
than before the public, although he was strongly
solicited to 10 so by several Of the managers of the
American Theatres. Mr.. A. died in Baltimore about
ayear ynce His literary performances were nu-
merou. and interesting His greatest ault was an
perbule-but iew men possessed richer more
1uxuri,Dt fancy.
G.. r. Lh bridge, native of Newport, but for
several years resident Of this town, in the year
1925 produced play, entitled " Tanered, or the
Rlshtful Hsir oC Rochda lie Castle" II was rath-
er n computation than original production, and
many of the scene. were copied verbatim from
vel from which the llay took its name. Mr.. Llli-
bridge eudeavored to introduce it upou boards,
q year or two since, but meeting with but little
couragemont, ho gave up the project, aud migrated
20 P ll,de ,ha and it is said, Mr.. Warrep mana
ger of the theatre in hat city, has promised to bring
it forward. A year two since, we gave the play
. casual reading and we must confess that we found
but little in it, either interesting original. Mr..
Lllibridge is printer by profession, but COM
pletey Stage-stricksn', as was the famous Sylves
Ter Daggerwood. We believe that he still resides
in Philadelphia, and at this time j: engaged III at
tempting to get up Quixotic crusade against the
infdol Turks, and in favor ofthe Christian Greeks.
He is a man OF some talents, but OF a wild and
thusasc fancy, always in pursuit Of fame, and rare
ly realizing the objects he may have in view.