The Nevada journal., 1851-12-20

will towards the company, we favored
them so far as to give their merits every
shade of honor they could possibly
claim, concealng as studiously their
faults. Justice to oursef and tho pub
lie forbade us Go more.
About this time, however, the Trans
cript began to be heard in behalf of
"the family and censuring in severe
but obscure terms the course of the
Journal. This, we mad means Of know
ing, was with the connivance of those
connected with the theatre. Still we
forbore that censure so richly deserved,
until the measure Of what we consider
ed perfect meanness was filed to over
flowing, and the anxiety Of the company
to hear themselves praised became so
intense as to induce them to withdraw
all patronage from the Journal office,
exclude them from the theatre, and
procure the publications you have seen
in the Transcript.
or course we were no longer under
obligations to the company to withhold
the expression of any opinion we might
have formed Of their abilities as porfor-
mers. We have uniformly made a sim
gle exception, when speaking in dispar-
aging terms of the company; not be-
cause we considered Mrs. Chapman q
particular STAR, but because she is per-
haps above mediocrity Of her profession
in California. But we regard it as ex-
tremely absurd to suppose that one per-
son Of medium qua lifcations can sustain
eight or ten inferior and in some instan-
ces almost idiotic performers, in COM
munity Of the highest intellectual at,
tainments.
To satisfy you, and othors who may
feel curiosity in the matter, we will
particularze little.
The obscene songs, of which we have
before made mention, are too indecent
to allow their farther notice.
Mr.. Chapman's manner, in speech and
action, is certainly very imperfect. We
particularly refer to his habit of begin
ming his sentences with a stammer,
which in many instances renders his
part unintelligible and concluding
with grunt. The unnatural twitching
and throwing of his legs, with an appa-
rent weakness of the knees, we consider
vulgar taste. These things made his per-
formances appear inferior the first time
we witnessed them the second time,
they made him look foolish subsequent
ly they have been truly disgusting -
Maturer years might remove these &C.
centricities if they occurred in youn-
ger man they certainly would be less
Objectionable on the sunny side of fifty
Mr., King anticipates criticism by
sclf-puffery. On Tuesday evening he
concluded that he chad made favora-
Bile impression in Nevada We don't
wish to humble his vanity, and we rea-
Oily admit that if all characters, amid
all vicissitudes, every impulse of pas
sion, in every kind of drama, required
one unvarying style of department, ex-
preston and attitude, then would a
wooden head be star and SO would
c. A King.
II any Yankee was ever such fool as
Green makes of himself in attempting
to personate Yankee character, he
was IN exception to his kind. The pro-
vince of an actor is Ito hold the mirror
,up to nature,n not carricature.
Paper is wasted in remarks on such
performers as Green and Hutchinson.
As supernumeraries they might get
along very well.
We assure you, friend Hull, that we
have touched far more lightly on the
faults and peculiarities of many of the
company at the Jenny Lind, than what
you term our keen, critical taste"
would prescribe. That we never praised
"the family" excessively, was because
we would not bestow indiscriminate and
undeserved applause. That we have
dipped our pen in nitric acid,n and
"excorlated" them, is their fault, not
ours. Justice demanded it.
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