The Princess's Theatre has become a sort of theatrical town
residence for Mr. Macready; and his appearance for some twelve nights or so at a time, is now one of the events always to be anticipated at certain intervals. His present engagement commenced on Monday, with Hamlet; and though his appearance does not exactly betoken the young Dane, he acted with an energy which showed that there was not the slightest decline in his powers. His usual points were made with their usual effectiveness, and earned their usual meed of hearty applause. Mrs. Warner, who has not appeared in London since her retirement from Sadler's Wells, is the lady selected to support Mr. Macready; and certainly, for the Gertrudes and Lady Macbeths—in a word, the maturities of the tragic drama—she is the best representative to be found. In person Mrs. Warner looks much thinner than she did last year. There is no announcement of any five-act novelty in the bills; and therefore the ordinary routine of Shaksperian characters, with the addition of such parts as Werner,Virginius, and Richelieu, will probably occupy Mr. Macready's engagement.
A little unpretending opera called the King's Piper, comprising a few tolerable melodies tolerably sung, has been produced at the same house, without exciting either enthusiasm or wrath.
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