Le Collier de _Perks, a comedy by M. Mazeres, produced
at the Gym- nase about a year ago, has been the most important novelty brought out at the St. James's during Mademoiselle Rose Cheri's engagement. The story is simplicity itself. The amiable daughter of a selfish millionaire, feeling an attachment for a young noble, whose father has been arrested by her own parent, parts with a valuable pearl necklace to obtain the prisoner's release. By an odd coincidence, the confidential clerk whom she employs in the transaction sells it to an American gentleman, who immediately brings it to her as a handsome present in the hope of obtain- ing her hand. The characters in this slight tale (which, however, oc- cupies three acts) are written up with a great deal of care and delicacy ; the tyrant of the Bourse, with his hatred for nobility by birth, being well contrasted with his fascinating daughter, whose compassionate tempera- ment never compromises her filial affection, and with the generous Ame- ican, reckless of expenditure,—though certain expressions uttered by this latter gentleman lead us to the suspicion that no very clear notion of the distinction between Canada and the United States exists in the mind of M. Mazeres. Mademoiselle Rose Cheri plays charmingly as the daughter, with just so much of sentiment, and just so much of playful- ness, as to preserve that tone of good society which is the very essence of French comedy.
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