NEW THEATRE, BRIDGNORTH.
For Two Evenings only.
On TUESDAY, the 26th, and Saturday, the 30th July, 1825.
Mr. GROSSMITH, sen., takes this opportunity of laying before the public the following high encomium passed on his son, kindly pointed out to him by a clergyman of Dudley. The numerous and repeated paragraphs which have appeared in all the London and provincial papers cannot have escaped the eye of anyone; but this work will, no doubt, escape the eye of some.
Abstracted from the "New Monthly Magazine," No. 45, July 1st, 1825 (page 299).
"The little Irish boy, Master Burke, betokens a dramatic instinct which can scarcely be mistaken. We saw in the country the other day a child, seven years old, named GROSSMITH, who displayed even a deeper vein of natural humour; actually revelling in the jests he uttered and acted; singing droll songs with the truth of a musician and the vivacity of a comedian; and speaking passages of tragedy with an earnestness and grace as though the dagger and bowl had been his playthings, and poetry his proper language."
Characters in the introduction which Master Grossmith imitates.
(Here come in nine small illustrations of figures.)
Characters in Pecks of Troubles which Master Grossmith personates.
(Here appear seven larger illustrations.)
THE CELEBRATED INFANT ROSCIUS, MASTER GROSSMITH,
From Reading, Berks
(Only seven years and a quarter old),