Pet:usual THEATRICALS.
The productive spirit of the French dramatists, or at least the mani- festation thereof, having remained long pent up, now bursts forth with something like preternatural vehemence. At the Gymnase, that most recherche of establishments, Madame Georges Sand again holds up her head. Consistently with her love for exceptional personages, she takes for her hero a vagabond, who having been every disreputable trade, pursues the exalted vocation of lady-killer in high society. The name of this gentleman gives the title to the piece, which is called Flambdo.
M. Alexandre Dumas is visible in a less accessible region, modestly twinkling forth from the opposite bank of the Seine. His new piece at the Odeon is called la Conscience: it treats of an interesting youth, who, being the son of a revenue-collector, takes advantage of his position to apportion to his own use seine of the public monies in the hands of his father.
At the 'Vaudeville MM. Montjoyb and Deslandes tell a terrible story about one Eva, a modiste in the early days of Venice, who, going a little wrong, and becoming excessively brilliant in the course of her aberrations, finds herself ultimately miserable, and is only Hayed from suicide in the Grand Canal to seek a retreat in a convent. Here, as in the case of Raminio, the principal character gives the piece ita name.
Nor are the more comic theatres behindhand in activity. A vaude- ville called Un Mari qui Boyle keeps the Variktes in a state of excite- ment with the squabbles of a very free set of individuals, married and single, who sport easily in a lax moral atmosphere. The husband, who not only commits the venial sin of snoring, but is guilty of the more heavy offence of making presents to his wife and thee pilfering them to give them to his mistress, is a fair specimen of the sort of company brought together. The Palms Royal is more then usually innocent with its last novelty. A gentleman who makes a lady's acquaintance by lending her a sou when she cannot pay her omnibus-fare, and on the basis of this in- troduction rises to the grades of lover and husband, is the hero of a dra- matic anecdote, called iliatoire d'un 'Sou.
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