The more he’s puff’d, the worse he draws.
A new farce, entitled “My Friend the Captain,” is to be produced tonight, at the Haymarket Theatre.
MR. HAMMOND will take a benefit at the English Opera House, on Monday next. We are happy to see that this very deserving actor’s professional brethren are coming forward to lend him that assistance which he has always been ready to afford to others.
TO MRS. H.
Thou sweet, to whom all bend the knee,
No wonder men run after thee;
There’s something in a name, perhaps,
For Honey’s often good for chaps.
A MR. GRAHAM has appeared at the Surrey. He is reported to be a very chaste and clever actor. If so, he certainly will not suit the taste of Mr. Davidge’s patrons. How they have tolerated Wilson, Leffler, and Miss Romer so long, we are utterly at a loss to divine. It must be, that “music hath charms.”
We are authorised to state that Rouse of the Eagle Tavern is not the Rous who was lately returned for Westminster.