Ordinarily one associates he Vaudeville with comedy of the lightest and moat frivolous character. It is the most typically" Parii house in Luetia and certainly Réjano, with ber always lively and amusing gaminerio" helped to give it that reputation, But the latest piece has a quite other character. It is a military drama drawn from the German—aud oh! strange spectacle—there are German uniforms on a French stage. It is strong and melodramatic play. It is not so much the construction of the dr: which pleases, which, indeed, is like a good many other dramas—a girl's hopeless love for a young officer of a station superior to her own and the tragedy shat comes of it,—it is a certain interest the grouping of the figures. The play is tableau, living and remarkable, of German military manners. Ten oF fifteen years ago the sight of German uniforms on the stage would have awakened the fiercest protest: to-day they might be Greek or Roman for all any one cares.
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