Theatre Comique

“Nineteenth week of unlimited success, the uncontrollable public excitement occasioned by the great Lingard.” “Lingard transcends all example. His performance animates and fills with joy and amusement all who witness his excellent and lifelike delineations.” Third week of Miss Susan Galton, the accomplished youthful prima donna Miss Alice Dunning, Mon. and Tues. are her last nights prior to departing for Europe.

“The versatile Lingard receives as large a share of public patronage as the most deserving of artists and managers could reasonably expect—crowded houses every night. Yesterday evening the Theatre Comique was just as full as was consistent with comfort. Mrs. Charles Kemble’s comedietta, ‘The Day after the Wedding,’ was remarkably well played. In his ‘comic sketches’ Mr. Lingard was excruciatingly funny, his manner of ‘taking off’ the Grecian Bend being fully as ludicrous as the performances of the fashionable, young ladies who may be seen ‘walking down Broadway,’ which is saying a great deal for the mimic. In his personations of public characters Mr. Lingard was marvelously successful. Mayor Hoffman’s somewhat massive chin, Mr. Greeley’s rotund visage, Butler’s oft caricatured features, Andrew Johnson’s horrid front, Grant’s martial ‘Phiz’ and inevitable weed and Seymour’s democratic face and expectant attitude were all portrayed to the very life. The performances concluded with a charming operetta entitled, ‘Fanchette.’”