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10 Os the night of August 4th the was more brilliantly illuminated than usu and the auditorium was packed with a f night audience come to witness a ‘* new ver- sion ” of **The Little Duke. Lecocq’s most charming and piquant opera was beautifully put upon the stage, and the tumes and other sions made a bril- liant spectacle, but when Mme. Januschowsk; (a woman who is almost as big as her name) appeared as the Little (?) Duke, Tue Jun n to have misgivingsas to Col. } of the eternal fitness of things. Now Mme. ky is a clever actress and is evidently up to all the tricks and bus’ ness of the stage, but her voice is not remar able for sweetness or compass and she is no more the typical Little Duke than is Agnes Folsome the winsome and dainty little Duchess of our mind’s eye. The plot of “The Little Duke” hinges on the marriage of two children and the en- tanglement resulting therefrom. When the opera was first produced at Booth’s Theatre several years ago, two charming exponents of the principal charac- ters were found in the persons of Florence Ellis and Louise Beaudet, ‘The transition from the memory of thes young and pretty girls to the present actre: ses at The Casino was such a shock to the nervous system of THe JupGe, that all the glamour and illusion of the old performances were immediately dispelled Mr. Ryley is comical as usual, and Gene- vieve Reynolds was most excellent as the Preceptress. Of cou a drill is introduced in which all the pretty girls available take part. The Casino would not be The Casino without this, and the various military and other evo- lutions of the fair ones gain the usual amount of applaus Mme. with the unpronounceable name, has improved since the first night, but she ll renders the English translation of the reuch text with a villainous German accent which is enough to make “Le Petit Duc” turn in his grave. ‘The ‘ new version,” of which there has been so much said, turns out to be consider- ably worse than the old adaptation. The French esprit is altogether lost sight of in the new translation, and in this, as well as in a few other matters, Col. McCaull would have been wise to let well enough alone. The prospects are that we shall have plenty of French, and French masic before long. ‘Theo has lost her husband, but that will not cause her to kick less irresistably than of yore, and then Judic is coming, too. _ Aimee doesn’t count, as far as the French is concerned, for it is to be English or nothing with her, this trip. If her accent in the new play is half as pretty as the one she has so often given us, THE JUDGE. be rtain of success, every time. We notice in a correspondent’s letter from France, that Mlle. Vallot, who fell from a balcony in New York last winter, and broke a half a dozen ribs or so, is to support Theo. Said correspondent also remarks that Va! lot is a fixed star in any company that n J under the management of Maurice | We are glad tohear it. She wasdecided ralling star a few months 4 We go to press too early to make more than a passing mention of the spectacul: pieces at The Star, and space will not y mit an extended notice of ** Caprice” until next week, Dates are out for Mme. abroad buying new dre in New York at the New Park Theatre, Sept. 29th, for a season of four weeks, * Called Back ” is still in rehearsal. They ay it took four months to prepare it for the London stage. Doubtless the Madison Square people will | profit by the experience of the Brittishers, | nd only four weeks will be allotted to re- ‘sels here. y and stage settings are copied | Yon the other side, and every one knows it is much easier to copy than it Janisch who is ete. She opens If asne loubt- less the Lurlesques upon it, that are now ele- vating and refining the Londone: will be brought forth for the delectation of inhabi- tants of New York and other cities Great things are expected of Mantell. In the mean time Fanny Davenport has not vet discovered another Loris for her play ** Fedora.” Davenport’s ill h th having been are now informed | that she has entirely recovered, and is ready for another n’s struggle with Sardo hideous Russian ‘Tragedy. Viswlon A. ff Boar J. Puly 204 Ge, S have bee op hifeblrmn Fez 28 70024 anck have never eS fire as Doers je LAF Fl temtellew bo Pre Mas Mim lin hd C1 Cer surg Zar EO Cag. 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