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j;,;r•• » %\\e Mkia• of IsMl night, was• infrodUKd to the Public tinder Iaisp Pat tp-«A-G£,ahd by hpwroeahs djfgracw it* She has air^dy exhibired in private theatric Is, and very much improved lierfelf by the experience. Her two firft a^s were gs^t proihiie, for her natural voice^ is mellifluent, but when diilrafiion. broke it, it was not always into that ka?ihsejs which thfiljs into horrcr, but a difcordant tone• that grated* ort the ear; yet a little more ftudy, aided- by her own good judgment, ivi’l mellow it info excellence. To Ipeak in the Brownian ftile, fhe* has great capabilities, and if fuccefsj does riot make’' her feff-c6n£uenr, which has been too oftfcn' the cafe, fhe may rife to the top of the profeffion, which fj'e nearly ft aches now.| Hfer firf^ ddcfs was fb lodded with trappings, sis ! entirely ro difguife her perfon, and her fecoud ! heccfTarily fo foiiibre, that ho judgment can be formed of it. 6fcr face is thtnnefs itfelf, but Hie tart'tnake, It fpeak'* mofl eloquent thought.** Inltead of making her exit in the neighbourhood of Bifhopfgate, which ftill hears her name, poor Jani Short heaved her laft ligh in fhe vicinity of the Riaftp^. ‘ ’ 5 • ‘.V ij Why do we lie VenetUn ftreets for the metro-j polls of |iOndon, when this Theatre abounds j with Gothic fceuery ?—it is unpardonable care-1 lefTnefs fomrwlrcre, certainly not with the IVfa- j; nager. • * L ?,:i * 1 : ! !’r ’ jj ! In the fecond Aft of the Play a man in the Slips was fmed with ‘frenzy; arid bt*oke forth i into’filch '** hideous lamentations’* as ,would ; have pierced an lieart offtone. fie was removed j with all poflibie halte and tendernefs, but left ' ; behind him much*of that pity which won I’d i othei wife Hve been ‘lavifked on fhe Hftiritfus ! miferics of Edwaf3#s unhappy mittrefs. :: *
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London Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Oct 23, 1795
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