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Show LhsIMi Tiratrk-Jl C!wstuHl. Ill JxHMton tiuriiat; tlie time of Cliarlm I. I he itlay houi-s were orvll ollSuitJalv. alU-U aaieh amu. nieiitout re never iiLvle hmful on the I .onr day, atM it may be that Sliake-i.earehlm.el!, at ail earlier Krioti, lm -truUeil awl frrtlej hi lHir tinon the Hafcoij that day. In loMI tlie ktnl mayor aaieJ to the lon of tlHM-ouiicilasalu-t the n--tit-e, and 1hII the oiiiioii that "the exercihc of tlton days in a trrrkt hiiMlranre to the prrvkv of jjxl." The (akrlv theatre, I.y the IlanV-We, IlanV-We, leiloleut of tlie" memory of Sltat,eraie, Mas a iieutvmal Mtuc-turc. Mtuc-turc. haviiit; for il hin (every trade and rote'eiuii licvini; its own raniiliarrigii in tlKoa. datr) Atla uioiliufC the worhl. and under-math under-math Wat -j rittcu theiuotto, ' foil, mundu. fil hMrlotieni," whkh .roltIry rupcoted to tlie joet the fainou "Set en Ajfeh" i-c li. Ina iihmIi aa -Aa Vou Like If a llrH l-rulueetl at tlirt linue, w.th Sliake-r-Hiv hiniM-lf, mi tlie autu irity of hbixounger laruther Cliarlos aaokl Adam. l:i lol.i, iit attar .utki-e3re liad nUreii fn nt hht connection with the miuaxeioeiit ami durint; the lirforniim-e of a lav oil the ruLject of Henry VI 1 1, called "AH Is rme," tlH- tlieatre caiiglit Hre fnniia waddinsof one of the cap. 11004 flntiaaaiihiteaiidwa!.lajrned to the ground. Thi war. the fin-t Knttlt-li thtatrvdeMmjeU hy tire. Wnen 'Ma(4Hh-' was fir.t played at the UWe tlieatre. Jlar- lxth and lUwii. made their flrrt entrance on lioissrlan k. I"i to the time of David Uarrick tlie elucutioli of the Kur-lHi ftage wa ftiltt-i aud umiatiiml. The audiences had laren loii accustomed accus-tomed to au elevatii.n of the voice, with a MiJdeli mechanical deirrn kion of IU toiiea, ralmlated to excite admiration and rippliuM-; to the jut UHHiulation of the wonin and concurring con-curring exierMon of the fitun- from the genuine norkinun of nature na-ture tiiey had Un Mranj-ens at learf for hiiub time. I)jth, in hi. 'I.lfeof(farrick,"iyi.. (arrirkV oay and familiar. 1 1 forcible, sty le of delivery at lliht threw the critics crit-ics Into hum heiMtatkm couccrnint; the iirortriety as u til as novelty of lii-i manner." The famotn actor, JatiH ttuiu, after he hail i-ccii Ciarrick in Mi.nc inirtant character, charac-ter, diflarnl teremitorily thai if the young fellow was rtghl, then lie and the other plater were wroiiR. Tlie inttho.1. and natural-iiia natural-iiia of Ciarrick live at the t-rt-rent day. while theartlncialiK'Hi of tjuin and his cniiteert It eomieteIy forgotten. for-gotten. 1. veil the stately declamation declama-tion of John i'hiliji Kemble 1. a thins of the lt. When (iarrick nrodured Macbeth at the Drury Line Theatre on March 19, lTJi, he wore a Hrarlet coat, silk ktockicfik and a wdered wi(f, while Mrs. I'ritchard, w ho was indeed a grand trau. as I.tdy Maclth, wasattire.1 s a faliion-al.leladyof faliion-al.leladyof the day. Tlie kitiging wilcliisttere dreMeil In the inbat cliarniinR (w-tuiut-, foiiK' of white ralin and tecc, were rouiied and Iwdercd, and made to look a-charoiinf a-charoiinf and attractive as -lble. The attius was goral, but the con-turning con-turning very had, or, to hay tlie kttt, inaii'ioiriatc. FboUight were tint introduced into Kngbtnd by Garrick, about 1..0. rrevious to that time the ttagewaallt by cluiidellers at tlie back. Uarrk-k, too, in 17-iL, lut an end to tlie J'tactke of admitting ttranirs to teats on the ttai Tnte Wilkinton thus glvex a clote. (!(-fcrijition (!(-fcrijition of the hUgc previous to tills time "On crowded nights an amphitheatre of mU was ral-ed u 011 the ttoje, w here there wouIJ l groups of ill-drmcd Jails and per-tons per-tons fitting on the ktage In front, three or four feet deep; to that. In fact, a lerfornicr on a topular uiglit could not Hep with afety,let lie tJiould thereby hurt or offend, or be thrown down amidtt scons of Kile or tiiey nMireutkv. Hut It tras the leaux wlio utually affected tliat pail of the lroue. There viu only one t nlrance on each Mdvof tlie rtaKe,w hlcli w as always particularly crowded. Firt, they i-joitcd their own figures to gratify welf-coruo quenceaud lmide and Interfere whMi the perfonucrx who had to come on and go oil" the ttage. They loved to alTrout the audience, particularly par-ticularly the gallery iert. ho would atswer hyMtowcrlug down oraogrs and half-eaten apfili. to the gnat terror of the Udlia In the pit, who wcreKJcloeely wedced tiiey could not move." How diCcrent all UjIj Is at the prcteut day. On Jthe optnltig tf Hie new CV. vent Oildcn Tlieatre, under the management of John riilllpKcm-ble, riilllpKcm-ble, ou the nlRht of September IS, 1S01, the nightly exenaes were 51,500 fomtthlug UDparalleleil U. fore or tinte In Ihotilral li'ttory. There was a ("jadruple company, for tragedy, oira, ivmedy and lailltt. rite recH j ts averattl I .-dh .-dh jerrenvm. |
