If programmes are to be trusted, we are soon to
have another Theatre du Gymnase in Wych Street. Mr. Wigan's announcement for next Monday looks very much as if he had taken for his model the most elegant of Pa- risian comic theatres ; and his company, headed by Mrs. Stirling and
seasoned with Mr. Robson, has a promising appearance. The founders of the Olympic did not intend it for a fashionable theatre, but it has been at the head of the mode in its time, and who can say that it will not regain that preeminence ? The Princess's has reopened with, of course, Sardanapalus ; and the glories of Assyrian monarchy are still undiminished. Mr. Phelps presents the Pentonville patrons of the legitimate drama- and Pentonville is as naturally legitimist as La Vendee or the Basque Provinces-with Shakspere's Midsummer Nights Dream, done in very splendid style. His fairies are charmingly etherial, and his own acting of the character of Bottom is an original creation-dreamy, dogged, and dogmatical. As specimens of decorative art, the Midsummer Nights Dream at Sadler's Wells, and Sardanapalus at the Princess's, are the two " sights " of the theatrical world.
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