A Yankee's Idea of Dramatic

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 19, 13 December 1843, Page 3

A Yankee's Idea of Dramatic

Power-—;Ud looking ove/ an old file of American papers the other day, our attention was arrested by the lollowing paragraph, in which] he wiiter has been at considerable pains m straining his imaginagination, lor the purpose of dtsoribing tbe powerml effects of Miss Ellen Tree's acting, on an Ameris can audience :—" 'YJiss Ellen Tree.—l'll tell you a migtity strange thing of bow that gal works on the feelins of cutters. When she was acting Julia in our parts, the door-keepers came away in, for it was tarnation cold, and no one took no notion ot the doors, cos no more could well get in ; when an old bear sniffs his way iuto ,the town, and find in no one a stir, for they were all at the play. What does the critter do, but sniffs Ins way there too, and crawb up behind the boxes. I guess he meant to sup off some of tbe chaps, but, however, he listened and listened till he got quite affected, and so mollified that he swore he'd never go a man eatin any more, next night he came again and brought his wife, and the thing was only discovered on the third night, when he was comiu down to the boxoffice along with an alligator." Ijed is a bundle of paradoxes ; we go to it with reluctance,yet we-quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but make up our bodies every morning to keep it late, "O turn to me," whispered the chisel to tbe grindstone. " All's well that ends well/' as the young wife said when tbe old man died—bich.

" Oh what a soft seat," as tbe hat said when placed on the dandy's head. " Take care of the paint," as tbe city girls *ay, when a fellow goes to kiss them. " Music and drawing taught here/' as the man said, when he was polling a wheel-bairow through the streets without any oil oa its axles* " I'm laving down the law," as the client said when he floored bis counsellor.

The expression of ** Vjull Sy Lore" evidently shows Jove to be sunuan»SL wast.

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