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... Acting, as an art, may here and there find a practical advocate ; but, in the main, the especial object for which the stage was devised—the soul of truth and power whereby it has lived, and flourished, and may claim consideration as one of the forties ...
... STAGE MORALITY. Another great outcry against stage v indecency has been raised in London within t] the last few days. Mr. Boucicault, who rl has created for the play-going public so c many sensations has now produced one 0 for the critics. le has ventured ...
... fellow-citizens. It is quite probable that a working m*n may among the aristocrats the house—a contingency which is scarcely possible fashionable London theatre. The sedateness of the New York public may, however, be suddenly broken up a change seems least ...
... examine the playbill to ascertain that no offensive scenes of the Formosa kind form i>art of the entertainment. He then invokes the purity of the English stage, upon the chastity of which I have, not to put too line point upon it, committed indecent ...
... that performance, or to retain any respect for art in which the highest honours seem to be won by grimace and mummery one knows better than the dramatic critic effects which this parasite on dramatio art vrodnoes. Then whv should it! If it goes Against ...
... thing that raises the scene above the interest attaching to ii as a pretty and quaint one. The stage has often represented to Katherine and her women, and the stage nearly all student* Shakspeare an indebted, though sonu are slow to admit it, for the vivid ...
... THE FINE ARTS. If in the contemplation of the grand and beautiful in art there ia pleasure whioh few of the higher orders of taste inspire and gratify, the time devoted visit to Messrs. Walker and Aokerley'a picture gallery will be mora than repaid by ...
... household blessed with ‘a perfect treasure’ —a friendly old nurse, or housemaid, or cook, who Keeps everything clean, and straight, and comfortable; or a butler who keeps the key of the cellar, and has had charge of the plate for twenty years ; or a coach- ‘man ...
... Tue Vator ov TiT1aNs.—The Marquis of Hertford writes a letter in the des Arts, in which he uests a may be contradieted-ef his having given 80, fora Titian originally seld to a hueketer for thirty shillings, and to a picture dealer for as many pounds—the ...
... THE SCHOOL OF ART AT BIRKENHEAD. Last night the prizes awarded by the Government to the students the Birkenhead School of Art were distributed in the Town-hall, .Birkenhead ; George Harrison, Esq., presiding. The attendance of ladies and gentlemen was ...
... tion of the leading figure, that the mind wandered with sstisfaction’to the accessories: or inanimate objects, were all in Keeping, and all helped to tell and impress. the story. Now, in the picture’of this year, wer miss this, ‘and we cannot evon shift ...
... the pregnant text. So, eir, this “‘foreign element” may ‘have both “ grace and ” for és credentidis to our count-ymen ; andl should recommend gour corregpondent to leave the marring of teem alone. May we aot assure him, dn the words of the proverb, Le ...