MR FLEMMING’S BENEFIT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2352, 17 October 1881, Page 3

MR FLEMMING’S BENEFIT.

To the Editor of the Olobe, Sib, —I saw with much pleasure in the advertising columns of your paper an smnouncement to the effect that Mr Herbert Flemming, of the Pomeroy Company, now performing at the Theatre Royal, seeks the patronage of the playgoers of Christohuroh for his benefit, whloh takes place to-morrow evening. Now, it Is an oft proven, as well as a recognised faot, that all ranks in this community, whether playgoers in the general acceptation of the term, or occasional patrons of the drams, have been ever most ready to manifest their appreciation of deserving talent. No matter how matured or youthful the exponent in a form at once as creditable to themselves as It is tangible to the recipient. 1 would, therefore. In Mr Flemming's case —with your kind indulgence, through the medium of your widely-read columns—(myself no absolute devotee to the sock and buskin, but simply one having a penchant for a good play well played) ask to remind your readers that this gentleman has a claim upon our generosity that admits of, at least, kindly considerations. We should remember that it was here, in our own Christohnroh, that his love for the profession which he afterwards adopted, and in wbioh he gives undoubted promise of a brilliant future, was first conceived and fostered. It was here, likewise, that he first abandoned mercantile life for the more vlcisaitndlnons and precarious one of the stage ; a change which we must wish him every success in, and prove, by giving him a bumping house, that we faithfully recognise his claim npon onr best wishes for his prosperity. If my memory serves me it is now some fonr years ago slnoe that finished artiste and accomplished lady Mrs Scott-Siddons saw, with a woman’s keen persplonlty, in the then inexpeperienced youthful aspirant for histrionic fame, a latent talent which cultivation and careful training must at no far distant day develop Itself into something more appreciable than mere ordinary mediocrity, .'ho itwaa who byoffering to accompany her on her then projected tour of the Australian colonies gave him the opportunity of wbioh he wisely availed himself, and of the frnlta of which we nightly partake when listening to and witnessing his nice conceptions of those difficult bnt carefully studied roles which he never falls to render both gracefully and scholarly. The play selected for the occasion 1s one in which there can be bnt little doubt of Mr Flemming's appearing to great advantage, as the part of Clande Melaotte would be one peculiarly salted to his appearance and elocutionary talents. Yours, &c., A LOTER OP MODEST TaLENT.