FARMAN THEATRICALS.
The adventurous sins of an age more romantic than this are at present offered as pleasing objects to the patrons of nearly all the theatres in the Boulevard. That interesting brigand, _Le Compere Guillery, still thrives at the Ambigu-Comique, and has lately found two competitors. One is a Dalmatian patriot of the sixteenth century, who joins the far-famed Mcoques, with the intention of freeing his country from the Venetian yoke, and figures in a piece by MM. Rollin and Wcestyn, called Le Rol des Iles; the ether is the wicked Cesar Famese, who obtains the Duchy of Placentia by a series of crimes, and then commits more than ever. The latter gentleman is the hero of a new drama by M. Victor Sejour, entitled Les Aventuriers„ and performed at the Gaiete. The Dalmatian tale is told at the Porte Saint-Martin.
_Daniel _Lambert, the title of a drama, written by M. C. de Courcy, and produced at the Odeon, makes the English reader wonder how five acts can be cut out of our fat gentleman. But the wonder is misapplied. Daniel Lambert is not the hero of the capacious waistcoat, but a French musician, who with difficulty escapes the toils of a dangerous female. However, the Dames aux Camelias and the Filles de Marche have had their day, and dangerous females are now ranked among the bores of the Parisian public.
An early comedy by M. Emile Augier, D AventuriZre, has been revived with considerable alterations at the Theatre Francais. The exploits of a courageous grisette who pursues a runaway lover into all sorts of places, and compels him i to marry her in the end, form the subject of a vaudeville by MM. Marc Michel and Delacour, entitled. Les Amours (le Cliopatre, and performed at the Varietes.
The aggregate receipts of the places of public amusement during the month of March, amounted to 1,551,737f. 95c., and those of the quarter terminating on the 31st of the same month to 5,198,104f. 39e., being an. increase of 476,549f. 94c. on the corresponding quarter of 1869.
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