To The Editor Of The Time...
[We ilLSert this letter for the purpose of awakening the London managers to a sense of the merits of a perfotmer so spoken of; but this must be the last letter we can publi.sl.] Sir,-By inserting the following in your next number, you will much oblige Yoar constant reader. AN ADAIIRER OF THE DRAdlA. IIndon, June 4. oir. Aent, or wnose tame provinciat report nas spoxen s9 soavOur- ably, appeared at the Woolwich theatre, on lVednesday evening, in the arduous character of Richard the Third. He undertook this performanec for the purpose of affordirg his London friends an op- portluity to judge of his histriQnic talents, and althougb evidently suffering from a cold, displayed powers of voice adequate to the fill- ingthe largest metropolitan-theatre. The character requiresintease ex- ertion, both mental and physical, from the firstscene whcrein Riduazd appears until the curtain drops ; and it was sustained throughout with unabated energy. M.Ir. Kent has studied his author diligently, treads the stage with a firm and graceful step; his face is capable of great varitty of expression; his action combines animation with strength, and his general style of acting quite free from mannerism. That his personation of the crook-backed" tyrant was without faults, cannot of course be affirmed * but even thoSe, few and trifling as they were eomparetl with his merits would scarcely be percepti- ble in a larger theatre. Taken as a wLole, it was a decidedly suc. cessful ef}ort, ar.d affords a rational nresumption that this gentleman will, at no distant period, attain dle higheat rank in his profession. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.