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The third version of Use Femme qui detests 3014 Kars has at length been produced at the Lyceum, where it bears the title Angel or .Devil. Three modes of treating one subject are consequently now before the public, and a comparison made between them will perhaps serve to prove the soundness of the old adage that advises us to "let well alone." Madame Emile de Girardin has told her story well ; and the Haymarket adapter; who has left it just as he found it, shines above his more energetic competitors. At the Olympic great pains have been taken to give a Somer. setshire turn to a tale of the French Revolution ; and abundant are the allusions to those peculiar West-country atrocities that render the names. of Kirke and of Jeffreys still infamous. No such chronological or geographical innovation is attempted at the Lyceum, but the relative position of the characters is changed ; the husband, who is "detested," and who, according to Madame de Gimrdin, is an honest confiding creature, being worked up into a jealous hero, while the "detesting" lady, originally designed as the central figure, shrinks into a subordinate position. Different as these modified versions are from each other, they both lack the closeness and the distinctness which belong to the simple translation of the simple piece. Two judicious revivals have taken place this week. Don Cosa,. de Baum, resuscitated at the Lyceum, serves to exhibit Mr. Charles Dillon. as the representative of two distinct attributes-careless joviality, and manly independence ; and in both these attributes he is equally at home. The oldfashioned Care for the Heartache is galvanized at Drury Lane; but so efficiently is the galvanic process achieved by Mr. and Mrs, Keeley, Mr. Charles Mathews and Mrs. Frank Matthews, that it seeme actually revivified. Readers acquainted with the dramatis personte will at once perceive that Mr. Charles Mathews personifies Young Rapid, and will surmise correctly that Mr. Keeley and Mrs. Frank Matthews represent Old Rapid and Miss Vortex. But what does Mrs. Keeley play ?Mrs. Keeley plays Frank flatlands. She astonished the audience of the amateur pantomime last year by the spirit with which she acted Peter Spyk in the Loan of a Lover, and tho line that she then began so successfully in jest the now follows in hearty earnest, and to very good purpose.
Those who recoiled the German Opera at the St. James's Theatre will learn with regret that Madame Stfickel-Ileinefetter recently died at a hospital in Vienna. The Brussels paper Le .Nord is the authority for the melancholy news.
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