THEATRE ROYAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2424, 12 January 1882, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

Shakespere's charming play “ A Winter's Tale,” was produced most successfully on Wednesday night, a success only marred by the universal regret occasioned owing to the circumstance of Miss Pomeroy’s illness just at the close of the play. Her rendering of the dual part of Uermione and Perdita wax most artistic, more especially in the scene where she is on her trial. The character i? exceedingly exacting, and to fulfil it in the admirable and conscientious manner in which Miss Pomeroy did must tax the powers of any one to a great extent. Throughout the piece she was excellent, and her performance deserves the highest praise. Scarcely fully recovered from her illness, and just at the close of a most trying and difficult impersonation, Miss Pomeroy in the statue scene fainted whilst standing on the pedestal. Fortunately, assistance was near, and beyond a slight shaking no serious result took place. The curtain was dropped for a few moments, and Mr Hamilton came forward to announce that Miss Pomeroy, with an amount of courage which does her credit, would insist upon finishing the piece. Accordingly, the curtain again went up, but another fainting fit rendered it necessary to conclude the performance. All playgoers,)whose good opinion during her stay here Miss Pomeroy has won to the highest degree, will hear of thie with regret and feelings of sympathy. Miss Bessie Vivian was the Paulina, but scarcely did justice to herself by an imperfect knowledge of the text. Mr Leake’s Leontes was a sterling performance ; a little too blustering, perhaps, in some of the scenes, but still the part was well and carefully played as a whole. The other characters were fiilc-d as on the former occasion. Messrs Hoskins, Hamilton, Flemming, and Wallace were excellent in their respective parts, and Mr Jewett deserves special commendation for his performance of the part of Oamillo, which was very creditable, indeed. To-night “ Antony and Cleopatra,” with Mies Pomeroy as Cleopatra, and Mr Flemming as Antony, will be produced.