PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
One of those long farces, peculiar to the Palais Royal, has recently been produced at that mirthful theatre. An elderly gentleman has a niece awl a stuffed bear, in which he keeps his bank-notes. Three lovers woo the young lady, and with one of them she proposes to elope, concealed in a large packing-ease. Nearly suffocated in this narrow place of confinement, she is rescued by another lover, who, to annoy his rival, puts in her place the stuffed bear, so that the beast goes off by the train by which the beauty was to have departed. This incident and a complicated pursuit to which it gives rise, occupy three acts, the piece being aptly denominated Ma Niece et mon Ours. Of the two authors who have concocted this pleasantry, one is the well-known M. Clair- vine, the other a mysterious gentleman who is called Frascati, and is reported to be a millionaire who hides his real name under a soubrivet. M. Vivier, the famous horn-player, has likewise surprised the Parisian world by coming forward as a vaudevillist at the Gymnase, but the spe- cimen of his new talent, which is entitled Ern Native dans an Chapeau, proves to be of little moment.
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