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Madame Georges Sand has lately been amusing herself by turning Shakspere's As you Like It into a French three-act play, with the title Comm ii vous plaira. She has been more rigid with respect to the title than with respect to the story ; for thrusting B,osalind into the back- ground, she elevates Celia into the first rank, and makes the melancholy Jacques fall in love with her. If this modification was attempted with the view of accommodating the French taste, the ingenious lady might as well have spared herself the tax on her inventive faculties; far the piece produced at the Theatre Francais last Saturday, with Madame Plessy as Celia, proved but moderately successful. The aggregate receipts of all the places of public amusement, including theatres, concerts, balls, and miscellaneous " sights," for the month of March, amounted to 1,196,867f. 96c.; showing a decrease on the re- ceipts of February to the extent of 294,587f. 45e. This decrease is solely attributable to the closing of the Imperial theatres on the last three days of "Holy Week," and of all the theatres on Good Friday. The items of concerts and miscellaneous curiosities show an increase for March; such entertainments being considered in Paris, as in London, especially appropriate to periods of fasting and mortification.
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