DOUGLAS .1 RIZOLD's highly-effective melodrama, The Hest dap, ha; been
revived at the _Haymarket, with great sneeess. WALLACE, as Marlin I cywood , i iii his proper element ; and he depicted the despair and distraction of the hi. that and industrious peasant it titan Ihisfort tint. and oppression have ground to the dust—who sees himself homeless, his children starving, and his wife (as he thinks) false to him--with the three and pathos requisite, but without any exaggeration. •11-s. Smetinn's quiet and earnest ael.ing ma llachet. contrihnt...1 to 11:,, touching died or reelity : the am•atkli and indigoltion of the wol.L'•71 falsely aeeast..., was sulvInad la- the wife's commi,eration or tier hit- band's sufferings, and the co.aseiousness of her innocence. Srume. LAND'S per:oil:Y.10B or OM rt://0,„ the stewar,I, who hurl uiuNeti<•.• for plunderi14:'. the heir in the WrClIg., (1011V binl by Ow yop.!1,.!: aunes father, was true to nature, awl marked by those train: of feeling and
power that this hen he please0 exeellent actor tint rats ly exhibits:
the discomfiture of detected roguery and il;, h "Inv ilis.itiLetitii iii revenge marred in its triemph, were exerts: •,4)1 tina1 exit : and throngleno lie hiked the villain made by circumstances. not by nature. 0. SMITH, is the burglar, was a personitivation yo' Bill tely 1.0s, t he ty;s. of the class or brutal, bloodthirsty 11111i:um; tutu Mi, W ‘,.N ,,i'" Jack, assumed with great gusto the dash gentilititimi swel:-Insi, of the dandy. thief. The tableaux from Wilayis.'s famous pit•t!..res. " 'rho Rent-day and Dist raining for Rent,- were admirably loam:god. The hint that wi flute 0111 st,I110 time ago as to the neees,ity Mg life and action to the stase representation of the eroues of the e•Invas. has been adopted ; Mitt instead or tho minatnral appear:111.T or a l'ar5 of people suddenly paralyzed, we have a hi Mg. moving seem% whiell properly embodies the painter's eeeeeptioe, by suppl■ ing duo which his silent art strives to imitnte -• the breathing reality et' form, voice, and motion.
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