New-Yorker Stadt-Theater

“ . . . 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 Finally, Mme Eléonore, withdrawn, one does not know why, beneath her tent, when she could be one of the best dwelling upon our stage, -- all attended by Mme d’Auberval, still relatively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.”