PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
There is something like a squabble with respect to the Theatre Fran- cais. The reading committee which belongs to that establishment, and is armed with the formidable power of the veto, has rejected a play by M. Adolphe (not Alexandre) Dumas, entitled Les Servitudes Volwntaires, M. Adolphe Daniel is not humble under defeat, but is about to appeal to a special literary committee, which will comprise several members of the French Academy.
The reading committee of the Theatre Francais has certainly been un- unlucky of late with its refusals. L'Honneur et 1 'Argent, by M. Pon- sard, was brought out at the Odeon, after its rejection on the opposite bank of the Seine, and then achieved a great success. The Philiberte of M. Augier, also repelled from the classic temple, went to the Gymnase, and then became the piece of the programme for a long series of weeks. Nor is the position of the committee improved by the production at the Theatre Francais, last Tuesday, of a dramatized version of the Lys de la Vallee of Balza°. This sort of thing is deemed scarcely worthy of the great classical establishment of Paris ; for when persons think they have received an injury, they begin to criticize with a jealous eye the favours accorded to others.
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