to Village On the canals which intersect France, branching out from Paris in all directions, you will encounter, if you are lucky, a gorgeous boat painted in white and silver, the white and silver being reflected in the greenish waters. It is a bateau-thédtre. In wanders slowly along from Tours to Strasbourg, and wherever it stops French who have few entertainments crowd into the Fulminant to see a dramatic representation, a Paris correspondent writes. ses I wonder if there is any other travelling theatre of this kind. The old fit-up shows which move around in England from village to village have to find a suitable hall. The company of the Fulminant carry their hall about with them. The transportation even of the small amount of scenery which ordinary perambulating "players need presents problems which the Fulminant has solved. It is an agreeable life to move leisurely by canal and river, to stop where one pleases, to play to a crowded house in a salle which is always ready, to give pleasure to a whole community and profit to oneself.
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