On Thursday night the Amateurs of the Club Concordia again invited their friends toa clever and carefully got up dramatic representation—tho three-nct comedy of Die Méncke, The Monks," by Tenelli, By the hour at which the perform an was to commence, there wasa full house, and the warmth of the evening causing an exceptional desire to possess pit places, the lower area of the theatre was partioularly crowded, he evening's entertainment was introduced with anovertureof selections from Fra Diavolo, by the amateurs under 'M. Remusat's direction, in which ye creditable execution was displayed, thong! we hardly think the elements or situation of the orchestra calculated tu do adequate justice to the composition. Leas difficult, mut perhaps more effective, were the pieces subsequently played, consisting of the Iris Galop and Diebaten Valse; but for the whole share which they contributed to the pleasure of the audience, the musi cians deserve warm thank:
The curtain ruse at 9 o'clock, on the first scene in the comedy, the plot of which we may give as it has been briefly sketched in the programme put into the hands of the audience to enable the English speak ing portion to follow the play, ithe scene is Tours, at the time of Louis XII, and the famous Cardinal and siates-ian, Richelieu. The Count Pont-Courtay governor of Tours, who is nearly relate to the all-powerful Cardinal, wishes to i duce Lis only daughter, who at present is novice ina Carmelite convent, to take the veil, as a piece of policy to assuage the ever watchful jealousy of the Pope, with whom the Cardinal is not on the of terms. Marie and her friend, von Lacan, for whom a similar fate is intended, are brought up atthe said convent, with all the conventional strictness of those times, the hollowness of which is pictured in several scenes of the piece, Ernest von Sédages is a colonel of the army, stationed in Tours, who, by often seeing Marie and more often hearing her prait from his tutor and friend the Canon Beau-dean, has fallen in love with her, and she, although never yet having apokeu to Ernest, recir-esits his love. The Canon Beaudeau is the beaw ideal of a Christian clergyman; he is loved by the peasantry, as demonstrated in the first scenes; he is adored by his pupils Ernest. and_ Marie, and even the bigoted and calculating Governor evinces the profoundest confidence in him, His enthusiastic affection, however, for his pupils, involves him' in the intrigue designed by MIN. von Brissac (the wily comrade and friend of Sédages,)
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