Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-28
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Next week we are TO have the Lancers
at the Memphis Theater. This attrac-
ton, judging from its success elsewhere,
will produce the liveliest sensation
among our refined theater-goers Of the
season. A late number Of the st. Louis
Republican says; 'hHeaA
The Lancers contains many attractive
elements that are calculated, il properly
handled TO please the popular taste.
And we are glad TO say that In this in.
stance the drama has fallen into good
keeping and is made the most OF. The
company who appear under the leader
ship Of Miss Moore and Mr.. Wyndham,
are really all very excellent in their sew
eral departments. Everything is done
neatly and well, even down TO the minor
characters, SO generally confded TO
botchers and bhnderers Mr. Wyndham
as "Victor is very pleasing and
satisfactory actor, who infuses into his
representations an unaffected natnralness
quite out Of the ordinary dramatic ruts,
and which is correspondingly effective.
The scene in the second act where he
badgers the colonel and hirts with
madame is admirably done--in fact,
drawn to the life so closely that the MIN
icry battles detection. We greet Mr..
Wyndham cordially as a creditable rep
resentative Of the new school which, IT
is to be hoped, will speedily Danish bonn
bnst and buffoonery from the stage. But
Of course the main interest centers
about Miss Moore, the fair head Of the
combination, and better head for that
position it would indeed be difficult to
select She is an English girl, apparently
in the vicinity Of sweet two-and-twenty;
fair haired, blue eyed, and with a face
lovely in features and fascinating in ex-
preston. She has fine presence, and
elegant and lady-like, unsoiled by the
slightest approach to that worn-out
abomination, the burlesque. Her greatest
natural endowment is unquestionably her
voice---it is full, round, rich and must
cal, without break or flaw TO mar the
perfect melody of utterance. She talks
our mother tongue in a way refreshing
to hear in these days when numbering
the Kings English is the commonest of
crimes. Each word is spoken clearly
and distinctly, and the sentences slip
from her lips with a mellowness which
nobly deserves the title of vocal
velvet" We recommend our young
ladies, and our young gentlemen, too, to
visit the Olympic, and gain thereby a
vivid comprehension of how much har-
mony there is in language when fifty de-
livered. AS an actress Miss Moore is
equal to the best in her line.
There are no mannerisms, nothing
artificial about her; she walks and
talks upon the stage as though she were
in a drawing-room, and even in the
strongest situations of the play there is
nothing strained or overdrawn. The
second act is an exquisite specimen Of
genteel comedy, trimming with sprightly
humor, and yet always delicate and re-
fined, while the song which she gives
here is tastefully rendered, and proves
the lady to be much beyond the average
of vocalists. The Moore-Wyndham
troupe, then, is emphatically success,
and the liberal applause bestowed last
night testified that the audience appre-
ciated and enjoyed what is, in many re-
spects one Of the most agreeable enter
tainments that our city has seen for
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