A social contemporary notices a rather remarkable perform- ance of
Macbeth, which took place on Shrove Tuesday at tke Roman Catholic School at Beaumont, near Old Windsor,—the same school visited by the Queen on Thursday last, to receive Use hearty congratulations of the scholars on her Majesty's escape. The present writer, who happened to be present at the perform- ance of Macbeth, which was greatly enjoyed by a very large number of Surrey families, can more than endorse what was said in praise of the acting by our contemporary on Thursday. We never remember seeing private theatricals anything like so effective, or Macbeth on any stage so well rendered. The old Beaumont pupils, who played Macbeth and Lady Macbeth with great power, and without a syllable of rant, surpassed, in our opinion, and surpassed greatly, Mr. Irving's and Miss Bate- man's rendering of the same parts. If, as was said at the theatre, and, we believe, with truth, all the credit of the performance was due to the extraordinary power of a cer- tain Jesuit father—Father Vaughan—for theatrical manage- ment, we can only say that the theatres of London have lost a managing genius in Father Vaughan to the Society of Jesus. Still, Mr. Barff and Mr. Mullens, to say nothing of several of the other actors, must have very great artistic qualities of their own.
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