French Evening

“While the Montpellier opera is having a good time at the East End of the city, they’re preparing, a few steps from there, to give French comedy to the lucky inhabitants of the Bowery. We have spoken of Mlle Ottilie-Genée, who has performed for some time in French, and in German at the New York Stadt Theater. The artist’s success has inspired the directors of this theater to put together a combinatioin that will certainly enlarge the usual audience. They have engaged Mme Gravier and Mme Eléonore, and MM. Gravier, Glatigny, etc., for a series of productions. 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 praises. With their cooperation, henceforth some French works will be presented that are a bit less simple than the ones that Mlle Genée could perform alone. Thus the poster for tomorrow announces 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 impresario of the Stadt Theater.”

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