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    £ , * The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Oct . 0 , 1860

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    Her Majesty ' s Theatre .---This theatre , with its renowned " double company , " opens on Monday , with Mr . Q-.... A . Macfarren ' s nevf opera of Robin Hood , the libretto being from , the facile and elegant pen of Mr . John Oxenford , and will afford appropriate and ample scope for a display of the vocal powers of Mr . Sims Reeves , Mr . G-ebrge Perron , Mr . Santley , Madame Lemmens Sherrington , and the other eminent artistes who will appear in it . In the new scenery which will be presented , it is believed that Mr . W . Bevorley will bo found to have excelled himself . The ballet under M . Massot will be on the most attractive scale , and the most efficient " footing . " AH business details of the establishment are in the best working order , under the acting and stage managers Mr . Mapleson and Mr . Robert Roxby , respectively . The orchestra and chorus will exemplify tlie completeness and excellence of the training for which . Mr . Charles Halle " ., the conductor , is so '

    creditably known to the public . Mr . W . V . Wallace ' s new opera of the Amber Witch will be produced in due course . In addition to the English opera season , there is to be given , concurrently with it , an additional " Italian Season " of 30 nights , commencing on Wednesday next , in which all tho vast resources of this theatre , in the foreign department , will be brought into active requisition . We need but write the names Titiens , Griuglini , Gassier , Ciampi ( the successor of Lablache ) , A new appearance is promised in the advent of Sig . Francesco Briani , who brings a considerable reputation from Italy . Sig . Arditi wields the conductor ' s baton . In the ballet Mdlle . Morlaechi will display that combined melange of facile grace , blended with vigorous executive power , which have made her sb popular a favourite . Altogether the house opens under brilliant auspices . Drxtby-iane Theatre . —This national theatre will open on the 15 th

    October for the eighth winter season , under the management of Mr . E . T . Smith . Among the company whose services have been , secured , we may mention the eminent and favourite names of Mr . and Mrs . Charles Kean , Mr , and Mrs . Charles Matthews , Mr . G-ustavus Brooke , Mrs . Stirling , Mr . Benjamin Webster , Mr . Robert Roxby , Mr . Paul Bedford , Mr . F . Matthews , Miss Arden , &c . There will be two " first appearances" at < Old Driiry" in the forthcoming season . Mr . Lambert ( who brings with him a great antipodean reputation ) and Miss Stirling , of Olympic celebrity . Mr . Watts Phillips , author of the Dead Heart , &c , produces a new drama , in which , Mr . B . Webster will sustain the leading character . A grand Christmas pantomime , from the penof Mr . E . L . Blanchard , is in

    store , in which the constructive and artistic talents of Mr . Beverley will find scope for their development . The stage-managership will be in the experienced and able hands of Mr . K . Roxby ; and Mr . Tully , than whom an abler artiste could not well be indicated , assumes his wonted functions in the musical directorship . Mr ,. William Beverly presides as visual over the scenic department , in which his abilities are too well known for us to do inore than record his name ; merely adding , that as regards machinery and properties , he will have the able assistance , respectively of Mr . Needham and Mr . Tucker . The arrangements for the ballet , under Mr . Cormack , will , we have reason to believe , justify public expectation . Such is an outline of the programme to be carried out in the forthcoming campaign . We shall enter into detail in future articles .

    Olympic Theatee . — . Secret Service has boon successfully performed during the past week , together with the pieces noticed in our last number . Next week The Porter ' s Knot will be revived , and Mr , J . M- Morton ' s new piece , entitled a Regular Fix , will be produced on Thursday . On Monday the favourite piece entitled "Puss , " will be produced for the first time at this house . Mr . F . Rofcson will appear on Monday . LrcEUK Theatre . —This house opened on Monday evening with the Brigand and his Banker , Delicate Ground , and Magic Toys . The merits of a piece must be estimated by its suitability for pleasing the public taste . Adaptation of means to ends is the grand secret of success . It is for this reason why , upon the Darwinian theory of national selection , " some races are preserved in the struggle for existence : and for preoisely the same it is that some pieces survive , and

    others are consigned to that traditionary tomb to which- ' all things that cannot stand competition in their respective spheres , are ultimately swept away . Judged by this standard , Mr . Tom Taylor ' s new- pieoe the Brigand and his Banker , must be mentioned -with a somewhat sparing meed of praise . ' The play is as follows : a certain freetrader , one Hadgi £ taorus ( Mr . George Yining ) , on the laudable look-out , somewhere in Greece , for stray cockneys on their travels , bags a very heterogeneous batch in the shape of Mies Poroupine , a strong-minded specimen of the feminine institution ( Mrs . Keeley ) , her niece Miss Melton ( Miss M . Ternan ) , Jphn Joseph Jorroms , Miss Porcupine ' s footman ( Mr . J . Rouse ) , o perfoot type and incarnation of u plush " and " fiupkeyisro , " Captain Obadiah Harris of the United States' service 5 and a German botanizing individual ( personated by Mr . Villiera ) , hunting after roots and herbs , who with Mies Melton , constitutes one of the love-making couples of the piece . The heroine of tho play is Phothu ( Madame Celeste ) , daughter of tho " freetrader" aforesaid , who having been bred in a convent , turns out , on approaching her

    majority , somewhat in tho same manner , mutatis nmtandts , ne an eagle would do if hatched in a dove oot , and kept there till it ovrivod at oagle ' s estate . " "Working in" with our " freetrader" is one Captain Perikles , of tho Athenian royal guards ( Mr . [ Forrester ; , who combines the charaotors of a fashionable dandy and an inoorrigiblo roguo , nnd who contributes to the action of tho piece , talcing oaro to strip his friend ' s victims of whatever that accomplished pooulntoi' may have lo thorn . After a variety of startling inoiaonts , the unfortunate party aro liberated by tho good oflloes of tho nomi-tamod young tigress Photini , who ia tamed outrigh ^ at last by lovo ^ wl vo . as < wo aro credibly informed , us mattor of tradition , " hatli ohavins to sooth tho savngo broast , " and is actually said to havo pared tho nails of lions and panthers , though when combined with jealousy , it is supposed to havo aoneidorably sharpened tho tongues , not to say tho talons of tho softer box . Sho becomes enamoured of Obadiah , and so tho story ends , to tho Batisfaotion of everybody in general , and tho audiftnoo in particular , Tho pieoea wore well put upon the stogo , and well aotod . Mr . Colloott ' s artisibio efforts in the soenio department aro deserving of the highest praise , As regards tho inimitable dancing of Miss Lydm Thompson ,

    in hei * own unique and original style , hex ' merits are thoroughly appreciated by the lovers of terpsichoreail executive power . The novelties produced have drawn crowded audiences to the favourite temple of the histrionic muse . The " renovation" whic . li this house has undergone is thpi'oughly complete and elegant . ' On Monday Jlr . Dion Boucicault ' s comedy , entitled " The Irish Heiress , " will be produced , in which Mr . IT < mry Neville will make his first appearance before a London audience . Standard Theatre . —A delay occurred in . the advent at this house

    of Miss Julia St . George . Instead of Satui'day , Monday was tlie night of her appearance here , when she enchanted a crowded audience by her graceful impersonation of Apollo , in the favourite operetta of Afidds ,. identified with "Vestrisian reminiscences . Miss Marriott ' s great and versatile powers have been exhibited to advantage during the week in The Daughter of the People . . Last Saturday a grand farewell performance took place , it being ; Mr . Barry Sullivan ' s last night at this theatre , when he appeared as the " Stranger , " in the drama of that name ; and Claude Melnotte , in The Lady of Lyons % Miss . Marrio tt sustaining the respective parts of Mrs . Ifalleiy and Pauline .

    Eastern Opera House . —Herr Meyer Lutze and Mr . J . Mengis have been engaged by Mr . Douglass for this theatre . Mr . J . W . Parkinson ' s engagement hero will extend to three nights per week after this day ( Saturday ) , in consequence of being engaged the other three at Her Majesty ' s Theatre . Mr . J . L . TpOLB . —This actor , who , in that class of parts the characteristic of which may be described as convulsing drollery and the sublime of fun , is such a justly popular favourite , has been " starring it" with great . success in that gem of the sea , the Emerald Isle . Mb . Barr y Sui ^ ivan . —We understand that Mr . Sullivan is boundfor the provinces , He will appear at Liverpool and Manchester , and about the middle of November he will return to London and resume his town engagements , playing here up to Christmas . £ , Me . Charles Dillon and Mr . Ryder . —These dramatic artistes are on the " York Circuit" at present . They have , we hear , been playing the leading parts in Macbeth , at Leeds , during the past week .

    Crystal Palatk . — -It is fitting and appropriate that the artiste who lias enjoyed the reputation of being the greatest songstress which the sacred drama has to show at the present day , and one of the greatest this country has over seen , should give her farewell performance before the London public at the great " Winter G-arden " of the metropolis , which is the onlyedifice large enough , though hardly lar g e enoughas it turned out , to afford space for the crowds who flocked to bid her adieu .- The cantatrice , whom Mendelssohn is known to have indicateoTto the highest musical association then in existence , as one of the first singers in Europe , has well maintained her reputation , which may now be said to be at its height ; so that she retires amid the undiminished admiration of the public , with their enthusiastic plaudits ringing in her ears . She has not waited to be a celebrity of the past before she quits the

    scenenor lived but her public life to that critical period when the greatest artiste becomes , not the favourite of the present , by the legacy of the past . The CrysUit Palace has been identified with sorne of tho grandest musical gatherings that have yet had their advent in Europe . The Handel Festivals , the French Orphconists , are among tho re-unions connected with its name , and now another interesting , association is bound up with it , in . Madame Clara Novella ' s farewell . Wo do not intend to enter into detailed criticism here . Not because crilicisin is an ungracious office 5 in tho present instance it could not bo so , because to criticise would be but to praise . But Madame Novello ' s qualities , as an artis te * aro too well known to need recapitulation . Upon the question whether this gifted lady will bo prevailed upon to reconsider her present determination , and continue , at least for a space , still to delight

    tho public with her nightingale strains , of course it is not our intention to prognosticate . Wo tako the " farewoll" as such , and as it ha s been put . forth . Wo see , and wo aro glad to rocord the fact , as it will afford gratification to expectant thousands , that the totality of her fai'ewell performances will uompriso a professional tour now in course of taking place , with Hcrr Moliquo ( whose oratorio of A braham was noticed at length in our last number ) , Maddmo Anna Moliquo , the pianist , and tho London and Madrigal Union , undor tho directorship of Mr . Land . To resume : —Madame Noveilo had for her leading associates last Saturday , ' when the Messiah was performed , Madame Sainton Dolby , Mr . Wilbye Cooper , and Mr . Santley : and in the Creation , which was given on Friday , $ Tr . Weiss , and tho before-mentioned accomplished tenor . The execution of these masterly works was such as was to be anticipated

    from , those eminent ; soloists , in conjunction with a band ohorus of 2 , 000 instruments and voices , under the control of such a baton as that which Mr . Benedict wields with a degree of experience and ability so unequivocal . In connection with , the Crystal Palace wo may mention tlinl tho porformanoo of Mr . G-. W . Martin ' s prisie glees and ohoral port songs , whioh was to have boon repeated on tho 18 th , is postponed for tho present , for reasons explainod in our notice ( in another column ) hoadod the ' < National Choral Society , " and " Volunteer Ohoral Movomonfc . " Wo have just space to add that an admirable series of " Grand Italian Concerts ) " is being given at tho Crystal Palaoe , tho management of whioh , ever shews itself on tho qni vioe in oatering for tho public taste . We shall notice this series in detail after its termination . Sufllco ib to say hero that tho porformanoos and tho days that , have been

    fixed aro as follows : —Thursday , 4 th inst ., Stabal Mater / Saturday , flth , and Tuesday , Oth , for eoloolions from Trovatore and Marf / ta , Don Giovanni and Lou Jlttgonots . Tho louding soloists nro Mllo , Tiliiene , Mudamo Lomairo and Signori Gluiglini , Vialotti , and Valsomni i the conduotora , Mr . Bonodiofc and Sig , Arditi . Tho number of poisons « ' ) jo ftttondod tho Crystal Pulaoo lnat wook was 28 , 711 . This " Messiah" , at St . Jams' Hai . l .- ^ A representation o ( this groat mastorpiood of the saorod dopartmont of tho lyric drama , was givon by D . Wyldo , at Sb . James' Hall , on Wednesday ovoning . TI 10 ehonis nnd oroliostra nuinbored 200 porformoi'H , among whom wore Mi ' . Willy , Mr . Viootti CpUlne , loading violins j Mr . T . Ilivrpor , whose " trumuet obljgato " in tho tliird part is soouaontial an olomont in a complete performance of this groat work . The solo vooivlists wore Mile . P « rop « Madame Santon » olby , Mr . George Perren , « vnd Mr . Patey . a he woixkao ^ n aooomplislimonta of the singers , and the oratorio itsoli bomg almost known V 3 ieart with tho musical public , renders it a worK 01

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1860, page 854, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2368/page/14/