New-York Theatre

“This cosy and pleasant little theatre contained last evening a very fair and exceedingly well pleased evidence (we deem the term preferable to audience when persons are supposed to use their eyes more than their ears), and the programme embraced a variety of the light entertainments with which the managers have determined to win the public favor. The Married Rake, which, hackneyed as it is, was received with laughter and applause, would have been more acceptable if Miss Fanny Young had given Mrs. Trictac in almost any other manner than that she chose to adopt. We presume her impersonation was extremely satisfactory to herself; but if it were to any one else in the house the exceptional person made no outward sign. Mr. and Mrs. Gomersal are decided favorites, and were the life and soul of the droll comedietta of Lola Montez. This lady has a neat form, a rather comely face, sings and dances fairly, and, in her short skirts and pretty costume, represented what Joe Gargery was so fond of declaring his strong-minded partner to be unvaryingly. The fact that she is perfectly self-satisfied, and shows it constantly does not lessen her attractiveness in the eyes of her many admirers. Lady Audley’s Secret was greeted with roars of laughter; and Mr. Baker and Mark Smith, the latter as the heroine, were capital remedies for vapors of any kind of violet Satana. The very idea of Mark Smith playing Lady Audley is so droll that it is easy to conceive how irresistibly funny he made it. Imagine Daniel Lambert as La Bayadere, or an Illinois [illeg.] as Mignon, and you have a faint suggestion of the supreme grotesqueness of the fair-haired bigamist in the person of one of the best comedians the metropolis can boast of. We are glad to see that the New York Theatre is gaining steadily in popularity. The enterprising managers deserve success, and will doubtless gain it in this liberal and appreciative community.”

“Three pieces, of a light and amusing character, will be performed here to-night, namely, ‘The Married Rake,’ ‘Lola Montez,’ and the burlesque of ‘Lady Audley’s Secret.’ The latter, as our readers know, is the work of Mr. Mark Smith, who appears in it as Lady Audley. Miss Fanny Young, the Australian burlesque actress, will make her reappearance this evening. M. Byron’s comedy of ‘War to the Knife’ is shortly to be produced at this theater.”