The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-01 00:00:00

JUNE.

Vincennes 3 Toulouse 24, 28
I
Montaüban

JULY.
Toulouse
1 Le Pin
St. Omer
Rouen
Metz B, 9 Saintes 2B, 29
Amiens
AUG UST.

4,5, 6 I Le Mans
Rochefort 5 Leon l9, 20
Bourges...
Valenciennes

.
Moulins
Cherbourg

SEPT:
Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7
Chantilly

:11BER.
Paris (Autumn) 23, 30

OCT

IBER.

Paris 7 1 Vincennes
Chantilly l4, 18 I

FRENCH THEATRICALS.

GRAND OPERA.—Once upon a time, when Lumley sue-
. . _

ceeded Laporte at Her Majesty's Theatre, there was a fine
old admiral who used to come to the opera in a blue coat
with brass buttons, such as Fyshe, Palmer, and Sir Francis
Burdett used to wear. He never missed "Don Giovanni,"
and on his arrival, he used to sweep the horizon of snowy
shoulders with a Doßond's telescope, after which he would
subside into a peaceful slumber in the tail of his box with
smiling instructions to the wife of his bosom, " Wake me,
my love, when the ghost comes." A man cannot take his
wife with him to the stalls of the French Opera, and so it
happens that many occupiers of those pretty stools snore
soundly to the end of "Don Juan." Let chemists ransack
their Pharmacopeia, they will find no such opiate as this.
The magnificence of the scenery is greatly to be praised,
the ballet is beautiful, but the Don is put upon the stage
in all the pomp of easy circumstances, arising from a
splendid subvention, but it is a pompe funebre. Five long
dreary acts which make those who can keep awake, and
who fancy that they must see it out, long for the last scene
impatiently as the boy who whispered to his schoolfellows
in the pew, when he saw the clergyman turn to the fly
leaf of his sermon, "Courage, lads, I see land." Elvira,
Anna, and the Commendatore haVe some reason for this
sadness—one has lost her lover, the other her father, and

the last—his life. But the Don and his ballet should bo

royatering revellers—reckless libertines with boisterous
spirits—pet Faure and Obin walk about the stage as
though they were engaged to do the "Heavy Fathers" of
the drama. They seem to think that they have a very un-
pleasant duty to perform, and thoy go through it with a
solemnity which is at times absolutely comic. Don Juan is
sedate as the Ray. Mr. Chadband at a tea fight, and Lepo-
rello disports himself like a Puseyite parson. We shall sae
how Mine. Carvalho will get up the opera next week at

,he Lyrique. She will take Lulina's role with Mlle. Nillean

for Elvira, and Mine. Charton Demeure for Donna Anna.
M. Barre will make his debut as the Don, and M. Troy as
Leporello. He is said to have been disinclined to play
Leporello, but his scruples have been overcome, and Mme.
Carvallo, like the well-buskined Greeks, has triumphed at
the siege of Troy, as she has indeed in Marguerite, and
everything that she has undertaken.

FOLIES-DRAMATIQUES AND DELASSEMENTS-COMIQUES.—
This is the very pursuit of novelties under difficulties.
Wherever we go we find nothing new but what has been
long forgotten. And yet not so altogether, for who could
ever forget Mrs. Yates playing " Victorine, or I'll Sleep on
it ?" They who enjoyed the rare privilege of seeing that
incomparable actress in that part must remember how they
crammed their kerchiefs into their mouths and made other
efforts to keep back those tears which flowed frotusterirveeryn
eye. Bah! Mrs. Partington might as well have
her
mop.
to drive back the advancing tide with
besto b t
~mans
"
uLfordstopEpgiluingtoun
wuusmeadu,sto
tusaarys
would
that the
be
dam
e
her eyes ; but what dam couldvi
keep bask those
wino, for she was a
sacred waters before Mrs. Yates' e
every eye at her
Castatia who made fountains flowfrom
out sobbing from their
w;11. Ladies used to be carriedl
, boxes at the Adelphi, and
used to retire and stifle their
• rdsmen
lt eha si e e
very
ry (thoughold th e
andins and Lifegua
__ w many years ago was this 2
gemotion in the lobbiye.gs.uwobich
make us so horribly old—but
pigeon-holes, which they call
don't let us talk of tehrab.
r this play, and wish to revive their
they who
reminiscences!
..
they
stay away) to the Folies-Dra-
better pleased i'
matieues, where
friendywwililthbae
and a very pretty face she has—Mme. Denville,
Can
rineratahye they oii
will they
h seyeep
w face—
ne sot Mrs. Yates.
but she is n They may also see the " Cadeau
d'un Sorloger." The " Chapeau d'un Ilorloger" was one of
the best plays ever put on the French stage, which
the' Cadeau," from one of the same craft, is not. Imagine
a damsel becoming enamoured of the nigger which you may
have seen at a shop on the Boulevards carrying a clock on
his abdomen ! The proprietor of this bellygerent piece of
lwriVerie presents it to the lady, who has, however, pur-
chased one privately, and on the same day she receives
another from her lover. "It never rains but it pours :"
" Il pleuvait des pendules ce jour ii ;" but this sable trium-
virate of timekeepers fails to make the time pass very. p.lea_-
santly. Nor shall we find any Delassements at the gb
Inl
bouriug playhouse which professes to be cotroupeues.
sata,
but
lieu
of Nlaassement we retina, unlike Messalin a' la
also satiata. Moreover the troupe is not
ticiuet de remarkableflours—
either
for youth or beauty: " C'est comma un bo
fan6es."

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CA LEDO NI Ali-RoAD.
—The members of the Alexandra Dramatic Club gave a
first-class entertainment on Saturday last at Itlyddloton-
hall, for the benefit of this useful and much-needed charity.
The hall was well filled iu every part by a delighted at.-
dience, who, by their oft-repeated applause, fully appre-
ciated the praiseworthy exertions of the club. This is the
only free hospital in the extreme northern district of Lon-
don. Additional funds aro very urgently needed to pre-
vent refusal of admissions. There is no endowment what-
ever. Cases are freely admitted day and night, without
ticketo vr delay.