Event Comment: "
The modest, tender
Mrs Kemble deserves to be noticed for a faculty which she possesses, perhaps, more than any person upon
the stage, more even than
Mrs Siddons, who has it, however, in a very great degree. While she is upon
the stage, she is always enacting, whe
ther in speech or not; and never, for a moment, forgets
the character, to look at her dress, or at
the audience, or to discover any appearance of uneasiness at
the consciousness of being looked at, when
there is nothing to be said.
The players call this bye-play; and it is a very important part of
their art. We are perpetually reminding
Bensley of his want of it, in spea
king to
the audience more than to
the characters...[
The playbill retains
Aickin, but]
Kemble read
the part of
the Governor for Aickin, and did not get through it very well" (
Gazetteer, 29 Aug.)