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A DRAMATIC CRITIC Mr. Warren in the breadth and reach of his art, though he did some great things, of which I recall his impersonation, at one and the same performance, of Puff and Sir Fretful Plagiary, in The Critic of Sheridan. But as a producer of mirth of the volatile, effervescent variety I have never seen his equal. Nothing happier, wholesomer, or sweeter in this light kind can be imagined, and the receptive spec- tator of the comedian's playing often found himself affected with a delicious cerebral intoxication, which passed away with the fall of the curtain, and left naught that was racking behind. The laugh cure is the only mode which is accepted by the physicians of every school, and Mr. Mathews must have been a potent thera- peutic and prophylactic agent in the health of Great Britain. He inherited his histri- onic talent, and had been finely trained in the old methods. Even in France his style was considered admirable in grace, [ So ]
TOOLE AND MATHEWS finesse, and dexterity. Sometimes he played in French. His enunciation was a marvel of incisive and elegant precision, effected with perfect ease, and often with extreme velocity. In his utterance of the lines of Captain Patter, in his father's comedietta. Patter vs. Clatter, he per- formed an amazing feat. There were in the play six parts besides his own, the total speeches of the six others being uttered in three hundred words. The drama occupied twenty minutes in repre- sentation. Mr. Mathews's portion of the dialogue was practically an unbroken monologue of between seven thousand and eight thousand words, which were de- livered in eleven hundred seconds. His talk went as a whirlwind moves, or as the water used to come down at Lodore when Southey's encouraging eye was on it; but no ear of ordinary acuteness needed to lose a syllable of his text [ Si ]
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TOOLE AND MATHEWS<br />
finesse, and dexterity. Sometimes he<br />
played in French. His enunciation was a<br />
marvel of incisive and elegant precision,<br />
effected with perfect ease, and often with<br />
extreme velocity. In his utterance of the<br />
lines of Captain Patter, in his father's<br />
comedietta. Patter vs. Clatter, he per-<br />
formed an amazing feat. There were in<br />
the play six parts besides his own, the<br />
total speeches of the six others being<br />
uttered in three hundred words. The<br />
drama occupied twenty minutes in repre-<br />
sentation. Mr. Mathews's portion of the<br />
dialogue was practically an unbroken<br />
monologue of between seven thousand<br />
and eight thousand words, which were de-<br />
livered in eleven hundred seconds. His<br />
talk went as a whirlwind moves, or as<br />
the water used to come down at Lodore<br />
when Southey's encouraging eye was on<br />
it; but no ear of ordinary acuteness<br />
needed to lose a syllable of his text<br />
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