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Question time.
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Seasonable
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SOME TALK OF ALEXANDER.
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and is peculiarly applicable just now to the Lessee of the St. James's Theatre, Mr. GEORGE ALEXANDER, who has got a decided success in the original Comedy, written by Mr. R. C. CARTON, entitled _Liberty Hall_, an excellent and a catching name, that perhaps might have been better bestowed on a larger picture. To play with
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until the passionate moment arrives, is all that Mr. ALEXANDER has to do; but this he does admirably, never under-acting, never over-acting, always as natural as a quiet gentleman, of a peculiarly romantic turn of mind, yet with a keen but chastened appreciation of a practical joke, kept all to himself for five months, should be. Had he been compelled by circumstances to sustain the _alias_, and to continue playing the part of a _Burchell_ in GOLDSMITH's _Vicar of Wakefield_ for one month longer, could he have done it? However, as the piece has
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it may be that Mr. ALEXANDER will have to play the part of _Mr. Burchell alias Owen_ for even longer than half a year; and, as he selected the piece, and as he plays this part excellently, it is mainly owin' to ALEXANDER that the piece is payin.' Mr. BEN WEBSTER is good as the somewhat gentlemanly-caddish mixture called _The Hon. Gould Harringay_. Mr. NUTCOMBE GOULD, as a Family Solicitor, deeply interests everybody in the First Act;
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like _Macbeth's_
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--which Mr. N. G. isn't, far from it,--
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Perhaps, during the Pantomime season, he might re-appear at the finish with a slight addition to his head-gear, as intimated in this little sketch of him, when he could observe confidentially to the audience,
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Here we are again!
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If he works at his profession, he will show himself
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Mr. HOLLES and Miss AILSA CRAIG, in two very small but strongly-marked character-parts, add to the general efficiency of an exceptionally complete cast. Miss MAUDE MILLETT makes the indiscreet _Amy Chilworth_ a very sweet person, but it is Miss MARION TERRY who has in her hands the one strong dramatic situation at the end of the Third Act. It is a situation which, no matter what might have been the author's conception of it, depends for its effect solely and only on the actress; and Miss MARION TERRY, as she sits, rises to the occasion. It is long since Mr. RIGHTON has had such a part as that of _Todman_, the quaint little old-fashioned bookshop-keeper, and to this quite Dickensian character, the actor does thorough justice; as also does Mr. H. VINCENT to the somewhat highly coloured blusterous part of _Briginshaw_. Mr. ALEXANDER commences the new year well.
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Put a penny in the hat, and the figure will work.