MACREADY was hailed on Monday, as Hamlet, even more warmly
than he was as manager on the op • g night. It is worth rioting, as a proof of Maces:woe's popularity, that YATES was hissed for mimicking him in the farcical piece A Race fin. a Rarity. The public are not usually so tender of the feelings of managers or actors; and on this octauion no objection was made to the ridicule of LAPORTE and BUNN.
MACREADY'S Hamlet is too well known to give occasion for minute criticism; but we were glad to note more variety in the flickering lights that chequer the sadness of the part, though it is yet too uniformly sombre and formal. It is, however, a complete and consistent whole : the first words Hamlet utters strike the key.note of his grief—pain and dis- tress at his mother's indecent marriage. W ARM'S impressive persona- tion of the Ghost, and Mrs. WARNER'S powerful performance of the Queen, to which we may add the propriety of SERI.E'S Horatio, mate- tially the effect of MACREADY'S acting in the principal scenes. We did not admire Miss RAINFORTH in Ophelia—except fur her lining; which was is fact too good, in other words, too artist-like it is a vulgar error of the stage to treat Ophelia'a as a singing part, for the prima donna of a company—she should be a delicate and sweet gentle- woman, and the less ado about the singing, the better. Alaceemay played in the Lady of Lyons on Wednesday, and Othello on Thursday. What little we saw of Othello, showed that be carried the sympathies of the audience along with him—a sure evidence of fine acting. YANDENHOEF, on the contrary, seemed to have produced no impression as logo, except that he made people laugh—which was wrong. But we were too late to see the most trying part of his per- formance, and the best of ANDERSON'S Cassio. Emilia could not be better played than by Mrs. WARNER. The Tempest is announced for next week : if so, it must be on Saturday ; the other nights of performance being engaged—and the Covent Garden play-bills are to be trusted.
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