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Show Theatre. Larger audiences visitj tho theatre bow that "the 4th" baa' passed, and things aro settling down into their usual placidity. Mr. Edwin Adams renews each evening tho veryj favorable impression heretofore created i by his able and cultured impersoua- tion of important characters, and still j wins, among practiced p!uy-gocrs tho; title of the most finished actor in the' United Stolen. In tragedy ho is un- questionably Booth's equal; in comedy j he is vastly Hooth's superior, iiooibj is not versatile, but bo is classical and t formal; Adams is versatility itself, j while his wonderful ease and grace sit ' 90 naturally upon him, as ti lead to the belief that to be in a "state of; nature" aud a 'Vlnte of grace" at one ' and tho same time is possible, although tho doctrine is not acknowledged by i he churches. In solemn and impressive impres-sive passages, Mr. Adams reminds us of Macready as ho apiwareJ twenty-live twenty-live year :ii;o. While in the impassioned impas-sioned roadiugs, we are ?truok with Ins ivseinbliiiK'c to the elder Booth, the tinoit actor of bis day. It is .Miup'o justice to cay thai we have aud no such actor here since the Election of the theatre. We could wtino-v no liner or more attractive per-ortuanoe per-ortuanoe to-night, were we in New York iii." toad of uudcr the shadow of the mountains, than will bo presented here. |