Second German-French Evening

    "While the Montpellier opera is having good days at the East End of the city, they're preparing, a few steps from there, to give French comedy to the blessed inhabitatants of the Bowery. We have spoken of Mlle Ottilie-Genee, who has performed for some time in French and German, at the New York Stadt-Theatre. This artist's success has inspired the directors of this theater to form a combination that will certainly enlarge the usual audience. They have engaged, for a series of productions, Mme Gravier and Mme Eleonore, and MM. Gravier, Glatigny, etc. These artists, whom one has applauded for so long on Niblo's small stage, are too well known to our public for us to need to suppress our praise. With their cooperation, henceforth some French works will be presented that are a bit less original than the ones that Mlle Genee could perform alone. Thus the poster for tomorrow carries Les Noces de Jeannette and the Piano de Berthe. The performances will take place each Tuesday and Saturday. Since real French theater will be lacking for us until the month of February, or nearly, doubtless a number of fans will undertake the easy trip to the Bowery to rediscover the delicate pleasures that they would be deprived of for almost the whole winter without the initiative of the impresarii of the Stadt Theater."

Full cast lists included.

“ . . . We owe . . .encouragement to our old acquaintances, who still sustain, although under less favorable conditions, the flag of French theater. The modest productions of the Stadt Theater, in the Bowery, are, on a limited scale, perfectly pleasant, and calculated to make fans of our national stage bide their time. We find there, first, as the basis, Mme Ottilie Genée, a frolicsome Alsatian who plays soubrettes and pants-roles with a devilish inspiration. Then the regrettable M. Gravier and his wife, who have renounced the theater for the future. Finally, Mme Eléonore, withdrawn, one does not know why, beneath her tent, when she could be one of the best dwelling upon our stage, -- all attended by Mme d’Auberval, still relatively unknown, by Mlle Marie Maillet, by MM. Glatigny, Maillet, Morigny, etc.; all artists of good will, at least. All of that comprises a company of a genre that merits a pilgrimage to the Bowery. One inconveniences oneself for less, and elsewhere one is not repaid so well for the effort. These performances continue for part of the winter; they will carry us along well almost until the the inauguration of the Théâtre-Francais.”