Paris la nuit

“A highly critical and fashionable audience, that filled to repletion the cozy auditorium of this theatre, witnessed last evening the presentation of Paris la Nuit. As a standard play the drama has a very limited claim upon our attention. It is purely spectacular, although, on the French stage, that expression hardly signifies that the work to which it is appended is merely a succession of scenes none of which has the slightest relation to the other. Paris la Nuit tells the somewhat familiar story of a country youth who having tasted of the pleasures and disappointments of metropolitan life finally determines to return to green fields and concomitant virtues. The adventures of the lad furnish the dramatist abundant opportunity for introducing a number of characters and a variety of tableaux—an opportunity, by the way, whereof the authors of the productions to which we allude have made the most. The stage setting was, last evening, excellent. The animated scene presented by the masked ball was unquestionably one of the most striking and kaleidoscopic ever presented in this city. To the thoroughly good acting of all the artistes, as also to the verve with which they entered into the spirit of their respective impersonations, the great success of the piece was, however, principally due to MM. Chol, Deligne, Chanders, Juignet, Edgard, Scribot and Mmes. Carnel, Saunler, Daire and Deligne merited the plaudits and recall which rewarded their effort to please.”