PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
M. Victor Sejour, who will be remembered by some of our readers as the author of the Porte Saint Martin Richard III, has written a drama entitled Andre Girard, which is now played at the Odeon, with M. Frederic Lemaitre as the principal character. Andre Gerard is a man of noble birth, who, having been discarded by his father on account of a mesalliance, supports himself and his family by engraving. As his eight grows weak, his power of using the graver seems drawing to a close, and at this juncture a sort of human Mephistopheles calls upon him and tempts him to become a blackleg. He pursues a vicious career, but at last dies penitent; the approach of death being somewhat disagreeably indicated by the reddening of his handkerchief whenever he raises it to his mouth.
Mademoiselle Avenel, an actress much esteemed at Paris, and known here as one of the artists of the St. James's Theatre, died on tho 26th of April. She was born in 1822.
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