PARISIAN THEATRICALS,
Madame Guyonhas commenced her career at the Theatre Francais, by playing Cleopatra in the Rodugune of Corneille, a character that has not been touched since the retirement of Mademoiselle Georges, and she is expected to revive other parts of the terrible kind, such as Clytemuestre, Aggripine, Semiramis, &c., so that her course will be to some extent dis- tinct from that of the late Mademoiselle Rachel, and familiarize the pub- lics with several forgotten works of the old French classics. It may be re- marked that Madame Guyon was originally an actress at the Francais, before she acquired her reputation on the Boulevard, and that hence her appearance on legitimate boards is to be deemed a return to the faith of her youth.
Les Mrs: d'Amour, the new comedy by MM. Scribe and De Bidville, was brought out at the Theatre Francais on Tuesday last. Although it is divided into three acts, the plot is of the simplest. Nor is the idea novel. Madame Dalibon, a married lady, gives herself up to a guiltless, but morbid love for a young naval officer, whom she supposes to be dead, and to whose memory she devotes her most delicious reveries. When tho dear departed returns to life, he shows himself much dissatisfied with the mourner's nervous delicacy, and bluntly asks for the hand of her sister in marriage ; the " Mete d'Amour" is dissipated.
The new drama promised at the Porte Saint Martin, has at last come out, with the title L' Outrage, and so very outrageous is the plot, that we cannot venture to describe it at length, but merely hint that dishonour by brute force is the crime selected for dramatic treatment. MM. Bar- riere and Plouvier, the authors, need not be under the slightest apprehen- sion that their precious thoughts will, in this instance, be stolen by the brigands who write for the English stage. A friend well says of it—."It the events happened in real life, and were brought before a tribunal of justice, the magistrate would order the public to be excluded."
At the Theatre Lyrique there is a new fairy opera, composed by M. Victor. Masse to words by MM. Lochroy and Hippolyto Cogniard. It is called La File Carabosse, the heroine being a sprite, who in conse- quence of some misdeed is doomed not only to bear this name instead of her proper appellation Mainline, but also to wear the form of a hump- backed old woman. A kiss from the lips of a young man will, however, remove from her the weight of years, and if another young man will kindly consent to carry the hump, he will be allowed to relieve her of the second burden, provided always the two benefactors are on the point of marriage. Dodging about every place where a wedding seems on the tapis, the fairy contrives to get a kiss by mistake, which while it restores her to youth, converts the person who gives it into a wrinkled old man. As for the hump she is enabled to bestow that upon an ambitious serv- ing-man, who wants to become a major-domo, and accepts the deformity together with the exalted pest. At the end of the tale the fairy has pro- vided herself with a young and handsome lover, and the two victims re• gain their former comeliness.
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