PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
The managers of the French metropolis have signalized the approach- ing termination of Lent by a burst of novelty in every direction. At the Vaudeville, there is _Lc Vie en Rose; a tale of a woman-doubting married gentleman, which, though supported by Madame Doche, Fechter, and all the grandees of the Vaudeville establishment, is found somewhat weari- some. At the Gymnase, there is a comedy by the illustrious MM. Emile Angier- and Jules Sandeau, entitled Le Gendre de ,M. Poirier ; showing the uncomfortable position of a marquis who has married into a miser's family. Is Pendts is- the delicious title of a drame at the Ambigu, in which three bigamies are committed by the smallest possible number of persons so that the characters of the piece are brought into remarkably close contact. The Palais Royal has what the Adelphi would call a "screaming farce," on the subject of a worthy French gentleman, (played by Grassot,) who gets into the most complicated difficulties by following a runaway wife and carpet-bag from Paris to London ; the varied scenes of his trouble being indicated by the title Sur in Terre et sur Cade. Five acts are required to tell the comic tale of wo. At the Varietes, in a farce called (In Mari qui prend du Ventre, an instructive lesson is-read on that peculiar form of bodily increase which goes by the name of' a-" corporation" ; the chief lecturer being, the facetious M. .Arnal. Lastly, the history of the present war is embodied in- an eques- trian military spectacle, brought out at the Ancien Cirque, with the title Constantinople.
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