Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-23

GAHTY q'HEATRE-MB- MURDocH-The Theatre mas
been well filed during Mr. MUEDocHs second weeks
engagement, though the houses have not been 50
crowded as last week. The principal characters
since our last have been Yonng Mrabel, Othello and
Macbeth
Young Mrabel, in the Iacoasiaat, Mr.. MuRDocH
has made his own no actor except him having
PLAYED the part since the death Of CHARLES KEMBIE.
It is nearly the only specimen Of the pure unmixed
comedy of the 18th and first half of the 18th cen
tuI.y now to be seen on the stage-to see it. YOU
must see Mr. MURDOCH nobody else plays It, orpro-
badly could play it, and he gives it according to the
most orthodox traditions of the English stage, as
they have descended through ELLISON LEWIS and
CHARLES KEMBLE to our day. There is every reason
to suppose it viii die with Mr.. MURDOCH, that it is
almost with an historical interest that witness
his fine presentation of it.
In the most purely tragic Of SHAKEsPEARE's char
aeters. as Macbeth and Othelo we cannot look upon
Mr.. MuRDocH as an actor Of the first Glass; he has
all the discrimination taste and Judgment necessary
to determine how they should be played but lacks
the force and passion to realize his own conceptions.
The feeling of the audience is the best test of sucha
part 0thello; for in intense passion, like this
there is no for crticsm-it must be felt, or it
is nothing 1t is enough then, say that the inten-
sity of excitement which should rise from the end
of the third act to the end of the play, commenced
at that very point to fall off and continued to do
throughout the piece Mr. NJ plays throughout like
thorough Shaksperian scholar, who has well
weighed every line shat he utters; but the whirl-
wind Of passion, which should carry away actors
and audience together, is not there. In parts like
these, Mr.. NJ is a critic rather than an actor.
Mrs CRISP has, throughout the week very ably
seconded the exertions of Mr.. MURDOCH As TRACE
denne it is not now necessary for us to give our
impressions of her merits, but fairly taken
by surprise by her in Bizarra. in which part she
bridled and ambed, and firted as much Mistress
KITTY Give must have done in the parts a
hundred years ago; she in perfection the demi-
rep Of the eighteenth century.
| Mr.. KEEBLE gave us an Iago, one of his very best
impersonations but he ought not to have been cast
in DURErErE This brave, good-natured thickheaded,
bashful gncouth soldier, who would rather storm a
battery than full of ladies, and is more
afraid of the rts of ladys fan than the thrFst OF
bayonet, was exactly the part to be given to Mr..
| MORTON. Mr. KEEBLE is physically and mentally un
qualified for it,
Miss JANE COOMBs And now we are to have a
lady star We have never seen Miss CoOMBs but
have received the highest encomIums Of her. At an
early stage of her career Mr.. FORREST discerned
great promise ofexcelence in her efforts, and caused
hor to be engaged at Philadelphia and Baltimore tC
play with him. since which time she has played
highly successful engagements on her own merits
If the half of what we told is true, she must be
one of the very first OF our rising actresses. Oh
course we are stating mere historical fact, which
is not expected to influence the judgment of young
Nashville, when we state that she is both young and
beautiful as well as intelligent We have seen her
photograph and can vouch for the fact She viii
make hes debut as Juliet with Mr. KEEBLE as Romeo
and Mr.. CRISP as Mercutio, that being the first ap
pearanee of our respected manager this season. We
anticipate bumper