For variety and daring it would be liard to beat the programme of a performance iven a few days ago at the Théd dutra canon. This is one of those small n'theatrs which pride themselves ing the way in dramatic art, by staging all sorts of plays that are too advanced for the larger establishments. On this occasion the programme was made up of four pieces: philosophical dialogue in verse, a side-splitting farce, a tale of-horror, and an ethical problems; 83 that the sp otaters could wot reasonably complain of monotony. ' L'Etau" introduce] usto a truculent hu-band, who, having discovered that his wife loves another, commits suidds by taking a dose of atrychnine, after carefully arranging matters in such a way that the guilty couple are almost sure 10 be convicted of murdering him. The lover, realising the situation, shoots himself "in an adjoining room, while the husband slowly _agonicos o.p., breathing maledictions on his spouse.
producer of cold shadders down the spine, this cheerful play can be strongly recommended for hot-weather thoatregoing. In""Le Droit de Tuer," an emotional family Jawyer takes-the somewhat unusual course of urging a doctor ta horton the life of a patient: The-sufferer and the lady whom everybody hut the lawyer believes to be his wife are lying at death's door, as. the result of an accident (automobile, of course), Neither can possibly recover, but while the woman ig
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