Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-10

| CAPITAL
i PANS, Sept. 10. 1883.
| The peculiarly Of Fossign Ministe
Challmel LAcoor il, that he can fal
sick or feel the necessity for . shor
leave OF absence At les than . moment'
notice. Having brought the Chimes
question TO the zenith Of bunaling, b,
deoamps. But the able Ambassador d
the Celestials remembers the minister
al tall talk. and the treaty a Ia med
Bardo. imposed on some SUCCESSOR O,
the late sovereign of Aanam. Franol
will not send any exreditsonary forc<
TO Tonquin 10 whip the Chinese; thu
Parliament would vote neither the
money nor the men, ard the Chinee6
know thia And China will concede
all she Is asked, save her fealty rights
over the Annauites, and having France
for direct and troublesome neighbor
| The theatrical season may be said q
have commenced with the Frox frou, a
Eve act comedy by Meesrs. Aeilhac and
HAlevy. Il il the most celebrated work
| Of these two famous dramatists. and q
serious attempt 10 catch the living man
ners ~ they rose in the last DAYS of the
Second Empire. Frsa frou means the
noise caused by the rustlinQ of siIk
dress. The plot Is this, and it win be
seen to be near relation of madame
B6v0etou:o Brigand h q rich and &C.
complished libertine, aged GO: he has
two daughters, Louise and Gilberte, left
to themselves, and % they naturally
follow their own instincts. Louise q
serious, sensi'ile, and devines life before
experiencing il. Gilberte il light, laugh
ing, found Of gay life: spoiled child,
an adorable doll, With roll Of lace for
q heart, and ends by losing herself and
soilinR hor name. Two neiehbors solicit
the hand Of Gilberte, Sartorys and Val
reas. The father decides for SartOrvs.
who IL q serious, rejecting man, and
Who IL loved in secret by Louise.
Tho marriage accomplished, the hug
band and wife, a. 10 usually the case in
Paris. follow their own inclinatiOus-
the husband his affairs, the wife her
pleasures. Gilberte has received the
pet sobriquet of "Frou- Frou," from the
rustlinR Of her silk dresses. Four years
are supposed to have elapsed. A baby
has been born, which, instead of unit
ing. has rather reparated the parents.
Louise. Who has already sacrificed her
self for her sister, now comes to her aid
to try and restore harmony in the Sar-
torys family. But, after inviting her
sister to thus reside, Gilberte becomes
jealous OF Louise. A terrible scene en-
sues between the sisters. and ends BY
Giiberte clipping with valreas, who has
never ceased his attentions toward her.
CD Sartorys follows the fugitives to
Venice, and kills Valreas in Q duel. u
timately Gilberte returns dishonored
and dying to her fathers, where she
dies.
The revival Of "Frou frou" is remark
able, because the difficult role has been
filled BY Sara Bernhardt. The char.
acter was originally created oy Mile.
Desclee, bot was at first destined for
Mile. Antonine, who ought even now TO
be taken as its best interpreter. Sara
bernhardt has several times appeared
- Frou frsu in her starring toufs, but Il
2 only at present she has enabled
Parisians to judge her. And the verdict
Y quaiified one. Sara gives us q tragic
Frou frOu. what the liRht-headed, empty
hearted Gilberte was not. In the death
scene Sara makes From frou's agony ire
sictibly fearful, when the dying Gilberte
calls her sister and makes her promise
20 have her buried in certain white
ball robe OF other days, with dounces Of
small roses, to make her look pretty and
the old froufrou once again. Madame
Bernhardt 10 here faultlees; but in the
other scenes she forRets that Frou frou
is thoughtless, frivolous creature. mot
demanding 70 be portrayed in tragic 40
AoS1ka and sxoukvxv>o
Bernhardt works herself up into such A
e TO Do perfectly inarticulate. And II.
Mayais, who represents Sartorys. pre.
SCENTS us with an Othell0 or an Antony,
rather than q common sense man Of tie
world, whose domestic peace has been
dishon0red and destroyed. Sara Bern
hardt has given us new Frou frou. but
opinion prefers the old one.
The administrators of the Union Gam
erale Bank, have TO make up, collect
lively and individually, the total loaa Of
twenty millions Of franco. vhioh
falls on old Royalist families. The ex-
citement 10 verv great In the Fsubourp
st. GERMAN, and not q few membera Of
the aristooracy will be reduced 70 beQ-
gary. S0me Of 4arshal McMahon's re-
Iatives are hit hard. Two Of the adj
ministratos having given all their prop
erty TO the assignee, and have ct out for
Manitoba TO occupy farms ptrchased
for them BY friends. The Due de BroQ.
lies son 10 resolved to 20 TO New "a
land TO make his fortune In wool Qrov-
ing. though his wife Il very wealthy. the
daughter Of Say, the sugar reflner.
Capital puniahmeut was becoming 20
PAr9 in ErA00a that opiruiuala vsa.nS q