Mon Etoile, the penultimate production of M. Scribe, has been
turned into a very neat English piece by Mr. Palgrave Simpson, and produced at the Olympic, with the appropriate title Heads and Tails. The chief character is that of a hotheaded, reckless young man, who "tosses up" for the "ay" and the "no" of every question that life can present. For a long series of years, chance is so favourable that the fickle goddess seems to have exchanged fickleness for constancy; but at last our hero finds himself seriously compromised in a love affair, and it is only by the presence of mind and dexterity of his inamorata that he is extricated from a dilemma into which his favourite doctrine has led him. When we state that his unlucky expedient was writing two letters, one accepting, the other refusing a young lady's hand, and leaving chance to decide which should reach its goal, we are sure that our fair readers will be of opinion that any annoyance arising from such a course was richly deserved. This reckless youngster, who so agreeably tosses his way 'through life till he bumps against an obstacle, is played with the best vivacity of Mr. Wigan ; and there is among the dramatis person m a servant-maid, half last, half slow, acted by' Mrs. Wigan in a natural manner, which reminds of us of the days of Mrs. Orger.
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