Covent Garden has this week been the scene of two
failures : Miss HELEN FAUCIT has been forced to prove, what any one who has seen her act must know beforehand, that she has not the power to redeem the mock sentimentality of the Stranger by her performance of the matronly and maudlin Mrs. HALLER ; and the soi-disant Mr. OTIvA Y has a third time proved his incompetency as an actor of tragedy, In the part of Jaffier. Like GOLDSMITH'S schoolmaster, however, he showed " that e'en though vanquished he could argue still ; " for be made a speech at the end, thanking the audience for applause they did not bestow, and claiming indulgence on grounds that did not exist. Any further intrusion on the public by this victim of self-delusion will be an im- pertinence. A tragedy by JOANNA BAILLIE, called The Separation, is an- nounced at this theatre.
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