PLAYS AND . PLAYERS.
TDERE have been no dramatic novelties this week. BERNARD'S contic.piece'of the Nervous Man was produced on Saturday, with com- plete success. We can readily fancy FARIEN'S personation of Mr. Aspen to be perfect. POWER plays an impudent Irishman—a sort of John Jones to the Nervous Man. It has been a lucky hit for Drury Lane, which was sadly deficient in magnetic power. Mrs. Woo)) and her husband have returned to Drury. Next week Don Juan is to,be performed. 'We haie been heartily sick of reading its announcement in the bills. " People make so much of every thing." The_ Rival Managers, it seems,- are upon. their old tack of running each other down. At Drury they are going to bring out La .`13'etyaderi; itecaust LAPORTE has announced it.; and at. Cov-int Garden i they talk of reproducing Don Giovann because Drury Is" doing so. LAPORTE had better wait to see how it succeeds first.
The Adel* produced a vulgar burlesque of Othello, for the purpose of introducing imitations of KEAN and MACREADY in Othello and Iago, by REEVE and YATES. The audience, it seems, did not relish the coarse parody'of SHAXSPEARE, though Adelphi audiences are not over squeamish. It was in bad taste ; and, as Mr. Fluid says, "there was no occasion for it." The imitations by REEVE and YATES, which are capital, would have told better had they been otherwise introduced. ,, Miss KELLY has been repeating her entertainment with increased success. Money is now taken at the doors, as at other theatres. Pen-' ,pie don't like to be put out of their way, though it be only to go. two doors off to get a ticket.
The King's Theatre opens on the 9th.
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