The following lines from a parody supposed to be written
by the former Manager of the Haymarket lately met our sight.
cit management, great was thy gain
When comedies had a long rim! Now banisli'd the Garden and Lane liy ray friends (Isbaldistou and Bunn. The beasts that roan' over their stage I still with iudilletenee see: Such moasters I ne'er will engage,
Their appearance is shocking to me. 0 1 Goldsmith, George Colman, O'Keefe,
Your like I shall ne*er see again! Had I w'r, the time should lie brief po
Ere Ed set your pens writing again: My. ,arrow I then might assuage
Iry rue force of wit, humour, and truth ; Mi.:lit smile at the folly of age, And I. cheer'd in the sallies of youth."
The imagined aspirations of the veteran manager have been fulfilled
by his enterprising successor. The Jove-Chase attracts excellent houses every night, and will doubtless continue to do so till the end of the season. The success of this play proves that perseverance in the course we have recommended to the Manager of Covent Garden would make his success certain.
A new and successful candidate for public favour appeared here on Monday night, unifier the assumed name of RANGER, ill a piece of his own writing, called !The Romantic Widow. The author's design has been to give scope for the display of his Went in delineating a French refugee, who, to obtain a livelihood, undertakes the various duties of hairdresser, cook, dentist, arid professor of languages. His courtship, marriage, and control of a beautiful but wayward lady of fortune, is the most original and entertaining part of the piece. In all the disguises he assumed, but more especially in the gentlemanly part of his cha- racter, Mr. RANGER acted with great truth and effect. If in addition to the freedom and stage-tact which practice must speedily give him, he acquire a little more quickness and vivacity, his performance of this eccentric character will be the most perfect thing of the kind on our stage. The comedy itself is riot without merit, but it requires considerable curtailment. This gentleman is reported to be a man of fortune ;rand is thought to bear some resemblance to the junior and handsome:Mem. bee for Finsbury.
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