Follosing very quickly on Me. Ale ander's production of Mr. Stephen Phill "Paolo and Francesco," Sirah Bernharit, las this week produced ™ vford's play on the same subject in Paris. So much has been heart of it beforehand that its advent has been looked for with eagerness, more especially as ws hope we may see it here in a few weeks' time, as "Malame " is to play for a short season at the Ga in June. All reports agree that in his version Mr. Crawford has followed history more nearly th Phillips, as he has place an int fourteen years between the mari Francesco to Giovanni and the final tragedy. Giovanni is made far_more of than he is as imperson sted by Mr. Geo. Alexander, and Paolo, during the fourteen years, has married a wife whose presence is most objectionable to Mrs. Giovanni. A daughter of thirteen is like wi-c introduced. She must be a somewhat startling imova tion; one reads of two children in some versions of the story, but always pictures them almost babies, but a girl practically
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