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Two farces of extraordinary slightness have been produced this week. One, acted at the Olympic, treats of the inexhaustible subject of Bloom- erism, with less humour than it has been treated yet ; the other, played at the New Strand, sets forth the exploit of an adventurous lover, who assumes the disguise of a Guy Faux to win the daughter of a bonfire- patronizing old gentleman. There is some smartness in the latter piece, though not enough to render superfluous the statement officially made on the stage, that only four days intervened between the awakening of the author's first thought and the actual representation by the players ! Miss Laura Keene, of the Olympic, has. appeared in Portia ; and ex- hibited the same histrionic qualities as in Rosalind. This is the meagre record of the week now closing. On Monday the sphere of dramatic chronicling will be enlarged by the opening of the Haymarket. The operatic arrangements of last season are continued into the approaching one ; while the non-lyrical corps receives a valuable ad- dition in the person of Mrs. Stirling.
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