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The Olympic, which will open tonight, and the Princess's, which will commence its season on Monday next, complete the list of Metropolitan theatres for the present year. Two houses that lately rose into dramatic prominence have again subsided into their original darkness. We allude to the Marylebone and the St. James's ; the former of which becomes a
mere theatre of the through the secession of Mr. W. Wallaek ; while the latter remains closed altogether, without any promise of renewed vitality.
By way of giving the playgoing world something to talk about, the manager of Drury Lane has written a letter to the Times, in which, strangely enough, while complaining of the censure passed by that jour- nal on the drama Nitaeris, he admits the justice of the verdict. The play as it stood in six acts, he says, proved so attractive that ho was forced to send away money from the doors • nevertheless, in compliance with the unfavourable critique, he cuts it down to three acts and a tableau. This is deference with a vengeance !
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