Miss KELLY is going the round of her favourite characters
; and offers besides, the attraction of young and untried candidates for public favour. We were drawn to her little theatre on Saturday, to witness the London debut of "a young lady of provincial celebrity"—known in the provinces as Miss CLARA SEYTON—in Captain Macheath. The choice of such a part is not commendable ; especially as Miss SETTON'S voice is unsuited to the music, and her vocal powers are the least of her qualifications. In the farce of Pay for Peeping, Miss SEATON had a better opportunity for displaying her versatile accomplishments, and giving scope to a natural liveliness and sense of enjoyment, which bespeak talents for the stage of the kind that, when highly cultivated, are most widely appreciated. In some of her changes she reminded us of the elegant Miss FOOTE of sixteen or seventeen years ago, with indi- cations of a more cordial vein, suggesting the wish that it might prove akin to the Mrs. JoaDasis of an earlier day : but the refinement of art has yet to be acquired to develop those richer powers of comedy, occasional glimpses of which appeared in the cows:: cf the performance.
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