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Show ANNA DICKINSON'S STAGE FAILURE. The theatrical critics of the New York journals do not give Anna Dickinson's new play, "The Crown of Thorns," the highest encomiums. The New York World s.iya: P. is no! strictly a trag-'dy, but a m"lo-driiina. It h the ;toy of woman robtn.il uf her true lover and made the victim of cm-piralori and s!aiid"rcrs, rising at last in her indignation to vio-dic.itu vio-dic.itu herself Hgaiiifet cuiumny. The three con?p cuous cuhract-irs in trio p Injure Inj-ure Anr.o Holey n, Cromwell, Earl i 1" Eiiex, and Percy, Kirl of Northumberland. Northumber-land. Percy, Anne's lover, linda ample opportunity to excite thj sj-mpathiei oi the audience, but Cr unwell has really the leading part iu tb-j pluy. The same correspondent writes that the debutante failed to come up to the expectations entertained ol her, and that she is ill-adapted for tlt part she has assumed. The play in essentially an acting play, entirely free from what actors call "trukey-talkcy." "trukey-talkcy." Tlie New York Times says: 51i;s Dickinion won no laurels tts a pi aj--wright, ard ber im person ntini must be accounlt-d a Ut failure. During Lhre" houra' p.-e-ence on the stage Hit; dehiiUritj gTe no single indication of tilnms for hor new career. U.r delivery was monotonous, hertono najit, her pathetic pa-thetic pas-age were Bonielirnei whirjed and aomeliuit.-s blette-f, and now a"d then they sounded like exhortations from an ili-lhh-d pulpii, given out, if w.- may b allowed the expression, an octave Ingner than the ordinary In resp ct of fauial expre-sion Miss Dickinson is Btill lea favored. Her c uiitiinncc is impassive, im-passive, her smile is powerl;.-3 tolight it up, and hor show of fervor, attention (Impair, or wrath a made thrungh the medium of a blnk stare, if st f,i al ol all the debutante' def-ei8, however, i.i the t jUtl abiunco of wnnulb or b-nder-ne.Ji. Thoroughly as bho evidently understood how ruiico of whnt she liml to do ought to he done, tdi) seemed utterly incantble of love, and her inl(r-views inl(r-views with I'en-y might as weM, fir all tha sj'mj-alhy to bn ti'.-picb-l on her part, have b en earned on wilh Crdmnl Wool-ey. As for the variety of accent and the phytic! force re'UMito to the execution uf what the lady run My comprehended, com-prehended, lh"e were not apparent. Tne slignt-t on'-avor to rod lier linei with uriinovi'l rig irdistorted her mtjulh arid shu -hot fori.li tiio word from oi e fide of that orgun, while ih exertion ting d them, bm, with h palpaole brt'gue. Her movt-moiit", Mllitu and gustm cs, from oiim end of the drama to lim other, ii.cludi d a iptick and t-hort slridw, mcli as wuikirig d J " , with urpnuiouneabb-iimi-, lire nd dieted to; a c:ouchii.g .'-9 ot ini-niiy ft-liun intensity, and r-peiited r-peiited cliippiug ol the hai.dj. Mids lJickiiion's failure furninhes a iotiier Uwion to etagc-stnick person.- of b-)tii F.fxtB ipprriaching middlt lilc. Kale Fitld, Ouk. y Anna DickinB'iu are the latett iiluatrations of tho fa' t tiiat an actor, lvcii if born One, must commence at the a, b, c of ttie profcgMiou and work up to tlio head. Talent, genius. arnliition will not give a novice a fair HUrt on the stagf, and with all MiM Uickimon'a expo-rience expo-rience befi.ro public audienccfl, an an actor fllie in in a bad plight, and finds herself rivalled and ulruml by thn m.t conuiion-place proR-ionalr', It will not d'., |