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Herold's Zampa was revived on Monday at the Opera Comique. At the Varietes there is a new vaudeville, by MM. CLairville and L. Thibonst, entitled Les Enfants Terribles. The eldest of the three " children," who are all troublesome in some fashion or other, is a schoolboy of fifteen,. who falls in love with his uncle's wife, and sends her a Latin love-letter. Discovering that he has a rival in another lover—(the uncle of course is nothing)—he atones for his folly by getting up a little drama, with a moral in favour of conjugal fidelittyy, and thus successfully warns his aunt-in-law against the danger that hangs over her. English dramatists may be advised not to touch this piece. La Fie, a little piece by M. Octave Feuillet, already known to the reading world of Paris, has found its way to the stage of the Vaudeville. The principal character, a young lady, who pretending to be a fairy eaves a gentleman from suicide, is played by Mademoiselle Saint-Marc. The unfortunate Queen of Scots has found a new dramatic home in the Theatre Imperial du Cirque ; where the usually tragic theme is treated less tragically than usual by MM. Crisa- fulli and Devicque. Bothwell, who is an unmitigated villain, regarded with horror by Mary herself, is shot dead at a properjuncture, to relieve the Queen of his odious love, and she eludes her Caledonian foes by a happy escape to England! Certainly Marie Stuart en Eeosae merits the praise of originality in point of tone ; but its chief appeal to public fa- vour consists in the magnificent ship that brings the Queen from France to Scotland.
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