THEATRICAL NOVELTIES.
THE new burletta of Beulah Spa, at the Olympic, when duly curtailed, which we suppose it is by this time, will be attractive, if it were only for VESTRIS'S clever personation of a Norwood gipsy, and of the amateur vagabond who captivates the hearts of boarding-school misses with the sentimental nom de guerre of "Leander, the Wandering Minstrel." The piece is written by CHARLES DANCE; but it is not one of his happiest efforts ; and is by no means equal to his Water Party, one of the pleasantest of the Olympic burlettas. The old subject of a girl curing a bashful lover is not treated either in a very novel or lively manner, but VESTRIS, the heroine, supplies by her archness and vivacity any lack of piquancy in the writing. There are too many characters introduced, who have little to do with the main plot, and are not very amusing personages. The two overgrown hobbldehoys in frocks and trousers, played by KEELEy and COLLIER, looked very absurd; but were as great bores on the stage as their prototypes would be in reality. There was nothing set down for them to do, and they did not know what to be at. KEELEY, as the sentimental youth in love with the ser- vant, looked very helpless and sawneyfied ; though he was not quite so unconscious of his ridiculous appearance as he usually seems to be. He made a much better bread-and-butter urchin than COLLIER, however. F. MATHEWS, as a sour old bachelor, hugging his miseries like a bear, and only opening his mouth to growl—and SALTER, as a fat waiter, falling away with over-work —acted capitally.
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