New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-09
THE DRAMA.
LIMA EDwIN's THEArER.

LIMA EDwIN's THEArER.
Mr. LeffDgwell, the burlesque actor, made
Ais appearance al Miss Edwin's Theater on Monday
evening in the character Of Romeo Jder Jenkins III
MT Edmund Faconer's happily devised and amusing
farce OF "The Good Natured Man." There was quite
large audience present and the entertainment ohero" p9
Mr.. Iefhngwen evidently enjoyed This player II
veIIknown here as graphic type OF ludcrous absurd
iy His perception element Of comlcahty IN ara
matte situations Is keen. and long experience nus
shsrpened his natural ability 10 bring out that eoi''
fly and make 1t effective. His method Is distinct anu
telling His acting however is marred by TWO ueloo'S
IL s sometimes coarse and sometimes IL reveals the iac'
that the player conscious Of the ickery to when ne
resorts and appreciate its absurd aspect Buriesque
should We think always delicate and always earnest
else 10 ceases 10 art and degenerates into bnnoonei'
That Mr. Ieffingwells Romeo Jenkins Is very iu"iS
embodiment OF the groesque and the iudicrOns ,"e IL
mo doubt and cannot question. He has al MISS hu
wins Theater the cooperation Of Mr. Eoerle'
who Is efficient and satisfactory as Mr. SPd"-
inn and also that of Mr. Harry JoSephs as
the good-naturod man. The Iat'er PerIorinef
might make his part far humorous In ehect Hls'
of eourse the part the farce heing the central
figure around which all the perpexiiies are grouped
p,,or IN the Good \ atured Mar" Illuminating eXhi-
nItion Of nbecty was made. Monday by couple OF
n,ayors whose names forget III the farce Of THE
Blind Beccars old trihe, based on true incident
ahe meeting Of couple Of mpustOrs in the vagrant line
bridge Paris, which ngufts IN Inherent Shapes,
and under different names but which in this instance
AZ most unwecome.-Mr Lcfingwe believe. win
shortly bring Mr.. Cravens comedy OF Billiards."
which will De novelty. It's advent will b. gladly hailed
our stage oyedosed with buesque Of late and
for some time past II is not beneficial element at the
hest for Il stimulates the worst practice that
vail IN any department of artthe practice of trfing
little Of 1t lights up the picture; but an excess OF II
tueten-Nr Beckett as the W'do' I,oanhey IN " A lad
lie "a Matinee here on Satur day.
DRAMATIC NOTES.
Mrs. Bowers will commence an engagement
al the Boston Theater next Monday.
A new troupe of burlesqners, has been or
Ranized-and viii shortly appea-iOr the afternoon per
ioImanees at Woods Museum.
Miss Kate Field viii deliver a lecture, at the
Globe Theater, in Boston, this afternoon on Charles
Dickens, Author. Actor. and Man."
Mr. Frank Bret Harte and his writings have
been made The topics OF lecture with incidental illus
trtive readings by Mrs E s. FOrInan of Salem, Mas
Mr. Harry Jackson, the low comedian late
OF Lima Edwins Theater in this city is now acting Al me
Boston Adeph Theater giving limitations of Kean, Fech-
ter and other celebrities.
f. L. Davenport has been very ILL., in Balti-
mere, with infammatOry rheumatism His engagement
BrWtus Dumon Richard ILL.,, Macbeth, and Benedick.
In Mr. Fechter's revival of Hamlet" at the
Globe Theater, Boston. the cast Of the chief parts
stands thus Handel Mr. Fechter Ghost, Mr. J. W. Wal
lack; King ClGudiuS Mr. II. F. DAILY Queen, Mrs IMe-
Mr. W. j. Lem0yBe; LdertcS, Mr. c. H. Vandenhoff; Ho.
ratio Mr.. T. Roche; Osrio Mr.. Kidder; First Craze
dtgDer, Mr.. Charles Leelerq.-Mr Walack plays Harry
Dsi,bar at this house, every Saturday night.
Writers in the press who protest against
filth the stage commonly met with the hypocriu-
cal and specOus remark that to the pure all things
pure, and that the evil they denOunee exists only in
their prurent minds. That is-the fault is not III
the baefu and maarous STENCIL but In the nose that
detects IL Mindful Of this beOry-the invention Of
the iowhved seamps who prostitute the dramatic pro
fesaon-we clip the following opposite statement from
The Saturday Rertep:
There is no prudery in Directing to nastness nor Is
there any originality, honesty manliness courage IN
oltrudIug what even instinct teaches us 10 avoid"