The music-halle, which usually put on their big "revue" at the beginning of the winter, are now producing little ones before Lent, with curious modifications to suit the altered circumstances of the times. In one of these chastened spectacles now being given, the curtain rises, not on a Paris boule-yard but on' a Havre street scene.
A squad of "girls" is of course in possession to sing the opening chorus to which nobody ever pays attention. They sing it to a wel known melody from the '"Cloches de Corneville," and give us to understand that they are waiting for the dolls sent by American school-children to those of the refuges. The dolls soon come, embodied by another lot of "girls" and then follows the "'commére.""
For the first time for about twenty years in the history of the Paris mi stage, she does not wear a skirt slit nearly up to the waist. This modest ie explained when we are told that she is the doll given to King Albert's daughter. The other ladies on the stage are also garbed with a due sense of decency. They all wear high-necked dresses. Shoulders are clearly fruits of Peace which are to be locked up until victory is at hand. But as there must be balance in all things, what is added above is taken off below, and though the arms are covered the legs are bare.
From Havre the scene changes to Paris, where we see wealthy house proprietors begging their bread be-
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