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It is so long since Mr. Robson has been seen in a new and important part, fitted to display those peculiarities that have gained him a position as one of the most remarkable artists of his day, that the announcement of a new "serio-comic" drama, in which he was to play the chief cha- racter, attracted to the Olympic Theatre on Thursday last a throng ex- ceeding the average of first nights. The patrons of the more aristo- cratic houses are not generally anxious to decide for themselves on the merits of new productions, but rather allow their proceedings to be guided by the record of already acquired success. Hence such an audience as that of Thursday denoted an excitement of no ordinary kind.
The new ptcce fully answered the expectations of the public, for never probably was Mr. Robson more thoroughly Robsonian, than in his de- lineation of Samson Burr the hero of the Porter's Silo& This Samson Burr is an old man, who having amassed a little independence by the hard work of a heavy porter, and brought up his son as a surgeon, 18 roused from his comfortable indolence by the discovery that the young gentleman is so deeply in debt, that the savings of forty years are not more than sufficient to extricate him from his difficulties. However, he is not only honourable enough to satisfy his son's creditors, but he even pretends that he has ruined himself by speculation, that his old wife may not break her heart through the misdeeds of her darling boy, who liathoffifttroAnAmlia. MIlicant,aaatibnittbdeittge, beciche,thelaltotire 04,11fi irNitOft, W4•4141194.600#3W.Atfq illete*M41341,.ages.._hut4lititsleahleit- ar(hiOat4 !Ffl c1335it44•Al .60,431144IhOLPE'lliOPtfoilis 4 ..s141fic*9rfifIT;;PY-r,.. 1"*. ;
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6iiiien and Grang. t ,-(e.liets, .1.24r 51f artift),` hematerial fron hTh tiis 14.ry simple p fpieCiii'io completely rewigetelilithat' Aitiy be al-. reiSet:regatheetisqateloriginal production in all that'qh. S'eharacter mid dialoguei.,oiEventhe action is ehanged by the othittionl f a first act„ widclu shows:hog/lake yourigman caniem ruin, and,oxhsitelth,eitaia-, eoae)dan ofallefai deinirenlidies who 'aro never: in. frotiti with tlie-Eng- 'a'sae important than the plot, tsf the !niece:in Mr..Bob-. soigkdevelopmentof the principal shameteri.whobasheen Changea froui, a 'rlioniewhat c ized French o crier into au. , exeeedingly Anat,mmt pA $414--a bit uf human nature, picked tip without:alley ,ffnfA,4e,A941,i, ° ern' coast of England. Frequently pathetic, h is nevaT diSins14 is cast down in the:Midst of his happiness he is td*aYs_read.y
make a jeke in the mist of his distress. I•Co one can ring the changes;
between and .•itiisery witli:better effect than Mr. Robson, and on this account he is the .Verleintiti for a Certain Chiss,of soeiety, which likes to have its feelings touched but is terribly afraid of being bored. It can scarcely be doubted that Samson, Burr *fit hold a high and permanent
placeln !Mr. RebeeeNelist of eb,aracters. ,
irWilliam Den,„tvtio has appeared at the Ilaymarlintfraa.the eecentrie r in IFILite.beilt at Greenwich, is not so much a comic artist as lie, is a uniorous giant, mho gains a laugh by an effeetiv'e plipceofis • colossal dimensions. Thus he is' at all events, a " figure of fine" and that is no small:qualification for broad farce.
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