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    merely to compete with the other house , and not because Mr . Q * baldistone had opened his ear * to the wish of the public , » n 4 the inceeftaoi voice of the stamped press . It is the people who want to tee fine tragedies and comedies , not the dandies of St . James ' s ; it is the great majority that wish for the restoration of the genuine drama , not the lords- The manager of the Court Theatre , after due reflection on the

    average intellect of the nobility , presents , The Man with the Carpet Bag / and sundry sea-pieces , with their line idiosyncracy of tar and grog , to the diamond-fingered audience . Having ulreudy introduced the classical production of « Brown ' s Horse , ' we can only hope that the managerial intellect will eventually bring forward Balaam ' s As * to give his riders a few words of advice . Everybody knows that the audience of the Surrey Theatre is chiefly composed of the poorer

    classes ; yet during the last six or seven weeks the manager has found it very advantageous to his interests to revive the genuine drama , and has moreover brought out an excellent new German opera , having engaged , at considerable expense , no doubt , Mr . Loder as conductor , with Miss Atkinson and Mr . Lenox as principal singers , the lady having

    one of the finest and best-cultivated voices we have heard for a long time , and Mr . . Lenox being the most dramatic singer that was ever yet on the English stage . A very good version of Rossini ' s Cenerentola — -the same that was first intioduced by 31 r . Rphiuo Lacy—has also been given to crowded houses . So much for the relative degrees of refinement between the democratic and aristocratic theatres . If the large houses are not very speedy in the reform and renovation 8 O loudly and incessantly demanded by the great majority , they will be

    ruined by the minors . The day is fast disappearing when any eclat will be added to the nume of an actress by a paragraph in the newspapers , stating that a Mrs . Honey was seen the other day driving a

    cub down Recent Street with a Mrs , Nisbett at her side , smoking a cigar ! Nor will the lovers of the drama be much excited by the announcement of * A new Farce by Mr . Plancbe , and a Farcetta by Mrs , Planche , * c ven though it were speedily to be followed by a Farcettina by Miss Planche und u Farcettuccio by Muster Planche .

    In short , it seems pretty clear that the renovation of the drama , and improvement of theatrical representations generally , will be effected * like everything else , by the people . One exception to our denunciation of the species of exhibitions now so prevalent , we are bound m justice to make in favor of the Havel family / now performing at the Strand Theatre . With them it is not ineru pantomime und gymnastics . Their minds are manifested in all they do ; they always give * the passioa of

    the scene ; ' hence their gladiatorial feats , wonderful a * they are even as mere physical exhibitions , possess a character that lifts them far above vulgarity . As to their tableaux vivants of Cain and Abel , tint is a ditferent mutter altogether . It was in the tine htyle of Michael Angelo and Ituphuel , with reference to power and pathos ; anil f » - » semhled the French painting—from which the design i * takep <~ -oi )) y in its externals . It it * -one of those things which we never see a second tune m our livca , but which we remember with the same feelings ut

    long as we live . FiNtf Arts . —If the average number of sign-boards that annually cover the walla of Somerset House furnishes matter of &mu * emeat to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/59/