Excerpt from Who Speaks First?: A Farce in One Act

This very elegant little piece has become a standard favorite throughout the Union, and a source of reputation and profit to all who have assisted at its representations, whether as auditors or actors. Its moral is good, and its language and situations amusing and instructive. Its being from the pen of that indefatigable dramatist. Dance, is guarantee sufficient for what we may say of its merits. "Who Speaks First" was originally produced at Madame Vestris' Lyceum, Mr. Charles Mathews playing the hero. In New York it has been successively and successfully performed at Mitchell's Olympic, Burton's, Chanfrau's National, and the Broadway Theatres.

Mr. Nickinson, (at the Olympic, ) has, in Captain Charles, added another to his long list of original characters, while his fair and popular daughter Charlotte has created no little sensation - both in New York, Boston, and Albany - by her naive performance of Smart. At the National Mr. Huld was the Captain, and at Burton's and the Broadway our Brother George was personated by Mr. George Jordan, a young gentleman destined, at no very distant period, to become one of the best light comedians on the stage. Our limits prevent our doing justice to all the artistes we have seen in this clever trifle, but we can and do honestly recommend it to all the lovers of the light and amusing class of dramas, as the best farce of the season.

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