The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-08

Worthy Villagers at the Gymnase, another play,
by the came hand, was read and accepted ~ the
Vaudeville. So unusual q "run OF luck" natu-
rally excited lin this amiable Citv) o good deal
Of not very liable feeling and o couple of the
petty dallies, the Gazette des htrGngers aud the
Bl0Gro (the most sptetul little journal ex anti,
having contrived to get some slight kno Wedge
OF the new play, Mdison Neuua, gave in their
respective columns what purported to be an
analysis thereof, with running comment
ary of ill-natured criticism, which made
forthwith the round of the Paris press. M.
Sardou, feeling himself immensely aggrleved by
tbs very irregular proceeding, so utterly defiant
OF all received rules In regard of theatrical
novelties, determined TO suppress the new piece
altogether refused 10 superintend the rehear-
sails of the same, and called upon the manager
OF the vaudeville TO give up the manuscript.
The latter refused to do this, alleging the heavy
peGuniary loss that such a step would entail
uron him, and declaring that as all the for
malities OF transfer had been completed between
himself and the author, the latter had no longer
any right over the play The quarrel went on
thus for some days, neither party being willing
to give way; but as the delay was extremely pre-
judicial TO the Vaudeville, the manager of the
latter brought suit against NJ. SardOu, de-
mandlng that the court should sentence the
latter to pay him the sum of FIVE hundeed francs
for every days delay in conducting the re-
bearsals of the piece. M, Sar6ou on his side,
feeling the absurdity of protracting such dis
pute, called together number of the leading
dramatists, newspaper editors, and literary
men, and begGed them tn decide what course
he ought 10 take under the circumstances: The
Jury to whom the matter was thus referred
eller hearing all that could be added on both
sides OF the question, gave it as their Unani.
nous verdict that the indiscretIons of the Jour
nails complained OF by NJ. Sar0ou we're extremely
reprehensible, but could not be considered as
constituting sufficient ground for the with.
dlawal OF the play. AT the same time the suit
BROUGHT by the manager being decided in that
gentleman's favor, NJ Sardou has deemed it
best to submit with a good grace to the double
verdict; and, accordingly, the rehearsals of the
new piece have been resumed, NJ. Sardou super
intending them with his usual zeal and good
temper.
The new play Just brought out at the Francais
by NJ. Auguste Vacquerie, son-in-laW of Victor
Hugo, has been a failure. Its plot is MI, its
'situatons" are uninteresting, and so tired was
the audience that, long before its conclusion
The Son was actually hissed-a very unusual
proceeding on the part of Partisan public
The Odeon, meantime, has secured, with the
new play OF NJ. Louis Bouilhet The Conspiracy
Of AmboIse, success as brilliant as that Of the
Gymnase with Nos Bons V,LageoiS The strug-
giles between the party of Conde and that of the
Guises during the regency of Catharine de
Medici, form the ground work of the drama, in
which the lacts OF the childhood of Francis III
have been somewhat modified to suit the re-
quirements OF stage effect. The versidcatlOn of
the piece is terse, elegant, and sp irking; many
of the declamatory passages approaching as
nearly to the poetic as il is i'll the capacity of
the essentially pIosaic French tongue to do. NJ.
Bomlhet, whose new play is his sixth successful
theatrical "venture"-each of them occurring
at regular intervals OF two years-began life
in Rouen as a preparatory teacher of boys
aspiring to university honors. Erudite and
literary, he taught for living, and amused his
leisure moments by writing stories and verses
for his friends. One of the latter, a "chum" of
the editor OF one of the reviews here having
got hold of one of Bouilhet's manu- scripts,
offered it to the editor, who published il to
please his fliend. The story, called "Molenis,n "
was so favorably received by the public that its
author at once determined to take up the pen in
good earnest, and soon achieved reputation as
a dramatist that has lifted him to honor and
fortune. The Odeon having been the first to
welcome his productions, M. Bouilhet has re.
n aimed faithful to that theatre; and every fresh
success obtained by him is the occasion of a
'fIaternal fete" in the Latin Quarter, where he
possesses a numerous cohort of enthusiastic
'riNnds who celebrate each OF his new triumphs
0y giving him banquet.