PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
At the Com6die Francaise, a little dismal drama in one act and in verse, written by M. Auguste de Belloy, was brought out on Friday the 25th February, with the pleasant title of Its Malaria. The Count della Pietra, a monster of Italian jealousy, takes his wife, an angel of inno- cence with a penchant for another man, to a spot where she must neces- sarily imbibe the malaria ; and finding this process too slow, he has re- course to a poisoned bouquet, with which he kills her, and which he finally sniffs himself. It seems to us that some of our dramatists might easily transplant this delightful subject to British soil, and lay the scene in Essex.
A story is told of the old French actor Dugazon, which has been. turned by M. St. Ives into a vaudeville for the Varietes. It seems that while Dugazon was paying his addresses to Mademoiselle Rosalie Le- febvre, an actress who became far more celebrated as Madame Dugazon, and whose name is still turned to practical utility as designating a certain line of character, she was under the protection of the Duke de Fitzjames. Dugazon was escaping during a visit from the noble protector, but met in his way another rival, who had sworn to beat him to death. He per- suaded him, however, to put on his own robe-de-chambre, and thus con- ducted him to the fair Rosalie's apartment ; where he (the third comer) had the luxury of being caned by the Duke. In the vaudeville the moral atmosphere of Rosalie is a little purified, but there is no doubt that the plot is taken from the above anecdote.
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