The performance at the Lyceum on Monday night shewed conclusively how well two actors can keep a considerable audience amused, when they are both gifted with talent and stage experience. We do not. undervalue the assistance rendered by the two songs of M. Lagarde, whose decidedly French baritone voice filled the theatre, nor that given by the two gentlemen who contented themselves with exceedingly brief appearances in the opening comedietta but the whole burden fell on M. Daren and Molle, Scriwana, and they sustained it to the undiminished delight of the audience until nearly midnight. The come-diet ta Madame attend Monsieur opened the Peimpossible to translate to the English accedings, a little play which it' would boards, and which only an actress who is as clever at touching without overstepping the limits of decorum as was the representative of Madame on Monday, could attractive in French. Molle. Scriwana is, in her youre, a finished actress, and the quick play of her features, the modulations vf her voice, and the rapid transitions as the sentences of what is virtually @ monologue succeed one another, are a lesson in the art of suiting the action to the word, and the word to the action, She gave the songs which were allotted to her in the middle part of the entertainment with not very much voice, but with plenty of chic and expression. "It is to the great Chaumont we owe the doctrine that in such parts an actress to succeed must be gentiment caucille, and in this, certainly in the first half of it, Molle. Scriwana is nite successful. The saynette by Gondinet, Ne! Monsiewr?——-, was capitally re. cited. The timid iigénue, making her first appearance in society, is warned by her mother that to reply to every remark made her, Oni, Monsieur, or Now, Monsieur, as she at first proposes, inay lead her into ditticulties, but that she will find Ok! Mon-view! a, perfectly safe reply to anything thatissaid toher; andthe variousinflections, each carrying its own meaning, that the actress gives to these two simple words, ina conversation with a terrible young Marquit which ends in an engagement, were adwirably done. MI. Daren so capital comedian, with even less voice than his fair colleague, but his singing of the screaming Hn retenant de la reewe convulsed the house, and it was encored three or four times. Offenbach's Operetta Lischen et Fritzchen sadly wanted a better accompaniment, but that defect even could not spoil the bright duet Jo suis Alsacienne, and the assumption of the Alsatian putois by the two actors was very well kept up.. A large orchestra was provided by the amateur musical society La Lyre, and they played during the evening the March Simplette, the Waltz Marie Roze, and the Mazurka Lo Klim with much spirit and in excellent tune, We can assure our readers that M. Daren and Molle. Scriwana are well worth going to see and hear.
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