Yesterday week a new piece called Love Levels AU, written
by Mr. Tom Taylor, was produced with much success at the Olympic, on the occasion of Miss Kate Terry's benefit. The story turns on the love of a French countess for a Russian artist, who turns out to be, as it is supposed, a serf, and on the struggle in her and his own mind between their mutual passion and their social pride and humiliation. It is sustained with great interest and effect throughout the piece, and the scene wherein, in the immediate prospect of death, "love levels" all the distinctions of rank is acted with real tragic power by both Miss Terry and Mr. Neville, to whom of course the parts of the lovers fall. The Countess's playfulness, tenderness, and suddenly shaken but not overwhelmed trust, in the first act,—her pride of station and struggle of dignity in the second, and the merging of all in the full passion of love in the last, are, as we might expect, acted with wonderful truth and delicacy by Miss Zerry. And Mr. Neville has never acted better. He contrives -to Unite admirably the physical violence of the quondam serf with the tenderness of a lover. The
Russian noble and master is acted by Mr. G. Vincent with a cold sardonic insolence that no actor puts on so well, and Mr. Horace Wigan personates the old Russian peasant—slow, designing, vindictive—with wonderful skill. The minor parte are also good, and the Russian winter village scene most picturesque.
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