FRENCH PLAYS.
Tin: "'retell Play, have commenced this season wider Elimut auspices. The St. James's Tlentre is a ("trim; temple for the groin, of 21I01.11.111: to preside over, and JENNY VE:EITHE is worthy to be its priestess: her votaries are distingui.hed, if not very numerous. At preterit the fair manager is the chief, almost the sole attractilm ; but we shall doubtless havt other reinforcements from the higher rn of the Parisian stage—actor; of the stamp of PEa LET, Le”,,tritE, and
Vobsys. The cotnpany is eflieient it sulordinatcs ; VIZENTI5S1 is the best known and the ttio.t talented of the male performers, and Made- moiselle Ttlimtnri` the cleverest of the females.
Last :tight, being the second of the subseription, Aftimeni.'s laughable petite comedy Le L:tpd Antourtux, was pretty well :rte 41 ; the pair of set vent lovers were especially amusing. Then f 'Bowel /at.;11l thr her mine, which) JENNY VERTI'llE played with her toted pitpsancy ; inimitable performance of La Chalk concluded a pleasant evening's entertaimnents.
JENNY WEItTl'Itt: gives the dialogue with epigrammatic point and the smartness of repartee. Iler little light laugh rings out like to silver bell; her archly. eloquent looks supply a running' moment to the sense; and even those to whom the }'tench lavguage is almost an un- known tongue, may read in her expressive face the meaning of all she says. Some discontent was expressed on the first night at the large portion of the pit—nearly two.thirds—engrossed by stalls, leaving but a small " amphitheatre," as the French term the back part of the pit. It is the French custom, but it is what John Bull is so little used to, that it would have been better policy to have conceded a row or two of stalls; especially as the majority of casual visiters would probably be to the pit.
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