The closing of the St. James's Theatre at the end
of the present week terminates a defined section of Mr. Mitchell's season. The period of broad farce is over, and the artival of Mademoiselle Brohan and M.
Regnier after Easter will give a "legitimate" comic tone to the per- formances. Meanwhile, the English public may thank Mr. Mitchell for making it acquainted with Mademoiselle Luther. As an actress of the class to which the French creators of dramatic categories give the name of ingenuite she is probably without an equal, since it is by no means easy to find such perfect finish combined with such a thorough appear- ance of juvenility. The piece of line Petite Fille de la Grande Arnie'e, with its commonplace plot and vapid dialogue, would be scarcely tolerable without the acting of M. Lafont as the old general and Mademoiselle Luther as his spoiled child. Indeed, we suspect that the part of General Radon is more suited to M. Lafont than to M. Bressant, who sustained the character at the Gymnase.
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