THEATRICAL REGISTER.
DRURY LANE.
Saturday—Hofer—Turning the Tables—Deaf as a Post. Monday—Venice Preserved—Popping the Question—The Conscript. Tuesday—The School for Scandal—The -National Guard. Wednesday—Venice Preserved—Perfection—Turni ng the Tables. Thursday—Hofer—Turning the Tahtes—High Life Below Stairs. Friday— The Belvidera of Miss HUDDART failed : it was hardly possible that it should supplant Miss KEMBLE'S pleasant version of the character. Miss HUDDART is announced for Lady Constance on Monday ; and will, we - believe, 'shortly after appear as Lady Macbeth. Mrs. WAYnErr gains on the favour of the audience—they. forget VESTRIS. Lord BYRON'S Werner will speedily be produced here, when Mr. MACREADY will personate the hero, a part which we understand he has already perhanued with sueeess in the Provinces. We want something new in the comic department ;—Lisrox has had but one new part as yet, and FARREN none.
COVENT GARDEN.
Saturday—As you like It—Ride and Seek—Robert the Devil. Monday —Romeo and Juliet—The Pilot. Tuesday—The Point of Honour—Teddy the Tiler—The Blue Anchor. Wednesday—The Stranger—The Pilot. Thursday—As you like It—The Pilot. Friday—The Provoked Husband—Hide and Seek—The Pilot.
Miss TAYLOR has made a very lucky attempt at the difficult charac- ter of Rosalind. The Taller almost quarrelled with Times and Chroni- cle critics for having accused Miss TAYLOR of being "very artificial" and well practiced in stage-trickery, whilst the Taller had declared she was nature itself, and on the whole the best Rosalind within his me-
mory. On a second representation, he recanted ; and accounts for the fallacy of his former opinions by the circumstance of his having, on the
preceding occasion, seated himself in a distant box, instead of the front of the pit ; a material consideration to a near-sighted man, as he asserts himself to be. As, however, the greater portion of the audience are rather distant from the stage, any performance which should, on a first view, give unqualified satisfaction to such an acute observer as the Tal- ler, must have possessed considerable talent. The Pilot, after beating about through various regions, at every theatre, minor and major in England, has at last found a resting-place at Covent Garden. Mr. PEAKE'S Chancery Suit is postponed till Tuesday next. It will be curious to see how a five act comedy will go off here, without the aid of a single star.
THE MINORS.
ADELPHI.—CooFER's novel of the Water Witch, has been drama- tized by Mr. BERNARD, the editor of his father's " Dramatic Memoirs," and is playing here every evening to crowded houses. The plot and characters of this new nautical piece have very little of novelty in them ; but the getting up as to scenery, machinery, and stage-business, is of a very surpassing excellence. Sunny.—The only novelty here has been a short, farcical burletta, with the piquant title of P. S. " Come to Dinner." Amongst other pieces which have been well produced at this theatre, we may mention Virginias and William Tell, in each of which OSBALDISTON plays the principal parts. COBOUR.G.—The manager of this theatre made an unsuccessful at- tempt at the starring system the week before last, when Miss BARTO- LOZZI Performed in Guy Mannering, the Beggar's Opera, Midas, and other popular pieces ; but the weather was very inauspicious, and the house but thinly attended. This week, therefore, we return to our usual melodramatic entertainments, in the production of which, the Cobourg Theatre is very happy. TOTTENHAM STREET.—Has been crowded every evening of Ma- dame VESTRIS'S appearance during the last two weeks. Don Giovanni, the Lord of the Manor, &c. have been performed two or three times in a very creditable manner ; and on Wednesday AUBER'S Fra Diavolo was produced for the first time in this country.
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