... subjects, touched upon amateur actors, and justly remarked, For this result I cannot help thinking the actors themselves are a little to blame, because of the support they have accorded to those amateur performances. We were all amateurs at one time ; and ...

... | Amateurs at the Cabinet. I} 1A_ _ -_t I . - .. On Monday night Samuel and Emily Levettez appeared as the Wandering Boys, in the drama of that name; and gave their duo- logue csled Sareice as a termination to the evening's entertain- ment. We have had ...

... AMATEURS IN PETTICOATS. We mulst confess our utter ignorance of the locality which boasts St. John's Institute, and ain equally culpable want of knowledge respecting the objects of that establishment. After the experience of Monday evening, however ...

... the kisutd friends in front. ?? piece chosen for retreseentation was C(age, a plav I.i .vj seems to be in tigh favour with amateurs juist i o. Nv Tte actilg was curiously uneven. Tite first act wi, ...

... careful study then devolves upon those included in the east. And here we would forbid the average amateur to appear in two parts on the same evening. The amateur brain is not Herculean, nor better than other people's, for boing able to do more than one thing ...

... admitted. I shall not attempt to extol amateur performances, nor shall I attempt to disagree with your correspondent's csiticisns of the particular performance alluded to. I am even ready to assume that amateurs are invariably devoid of talent, and that ...

... Amateurs at Portsmouth. A grand aniateur performance was given at Polrtsiotiuth on Thursday and Friday, the 21st and 22d ult., by the amateurs of the Garrison. The pieces chosen were flenry Dunbar and Dfiee Little Savarie, the cast ct the former ?? Dunbar ...

... form but an infinitesimal fraction of the numerous body of amateurs, many of whom are quite content to appear only in drawing-rooms. It is, therefore, an injustice to speak as though amateur actor were a synonym for a young man who wants to ply Hamlet ...

... witnessing an amateur performance on the first night of our arrival ; but the announcement of an amateur performance of Ours, which stared us out of countenance from almost every wall as we drove through the streets, overcame our determination, and induced ...

... AMATEURS AT THE GAIETY. Oh Tuesday Afternoon, May 24th, li8t, 1HERNE THE ?? p anttonmic.c-Burlesque, by R. Rcte and W. Yardley. flenry the Eighth . Captain A. Goociu ThelukeofRichmiond * Mr 0. l. ALLAN The Earl of Surrey ?? Mr Cr. C. LARtE Sir Themac ...

... MILITARY AMATEURS. A brilliant audience assembled on the 20th inst. at t the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, in response to tie invi- tation of Colonel Adams and officers of the King s Own i Scottish Borderers, who gave an At Home' which I partook somewhat ...

... beside the patter of some amateur imitator (leagues behind ! ) Iof Grossmith or Corney Grain. Will anyone acquainted Iwith society venture to assert that the indictment is too severe ? I have no objection to the amateur singer, actor, or reciter (the ...