21 OCTOBER 1854, Page 10

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Those great temples of the drama the Ambigu-Comique and the Ga/te are vying with each other in the production of two long pieces, dissimilar in plot, but very much alike in tone, since in both of them the sudden conversion of hardened villiuxy by the aspect of childish innocence is a necessary incident. M. Dugue, author of "La Priare des Naufrages," has written the Ambigu piece, which is called Les Amours Handles. M. Deanery, also a celebrity, has supplied the Gaite with Les Oiseaux de