"ADAM AND EVE" ON THE FRENCH STAGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2552, 19 March 1887, Page 2

"ADAM AND EVE" ON THE FRENCH STAGE.

The Theatre, dea No venules, Paris, has brought out in honor of Madame Theo'g return from Amerioa an operetta in four acts, called' Adam and Eve.' The authors of the libretto are M. if. Toche and Blum, and the composer of the score M. Gaston Serpette. In the prologue, Adam and Eve are shown at the foot of fcho tree of knowledge of good and evil. The difficulty whioh the question, of dress presented has been triumphantly surmounted'' 1 by means of a iesli-coiorod jersey, which seems rather the work of nature of art, and a bolt and tunic of the undressed skins of aoft-fleecod lambs. Besides the Miltqnic personages thore' are divers who are new to us. For instance, thore is a good genius, Atlriraetac, who tries to preveht'Eye fro® •biting the forbidden fruit/ The tempter (Bratsaur) on the contrary employs alj his address to bring her first, and thoii Adam (Brasseur, jun), to eat the apple. He cuts the fruit into, and flings' (o vight and left the halves, and decrees that the disobedient pair are not to moet again, on til both the parte are fotin tfand ■ reunited. Adrimctac is condemned to everlasting for not' guarding the tree better, and given for mission to bring Adam and sve together'.again, in happy matrimony. The ensuing acts are their adventures when they go in* search of thftjtwo halves of ; .th'o,-,apple, They wander-from Paradise .to Rome, from Kome' tS the banks of the Guadalquivef, and ihen to Bougivai,' famous for ife 'Bal des Cunotiers.. Eve at, all places adopts the local Ij» a word, to 'as Rcjme does. Adam is Adapts, a' patfioianjin the Amnios, a brigand, in Iberia; aqdonttys of the, Seine, a young sensational; painter, M. Saint Adam, whoiu one of 'i • »

a band-of joyous-canotieTs whoubducts the canotiero Eve froiii 'an old Jfcurso ■Baron, Sataniel. The Evo of|l|pro- •:•;:.'. logue, who isT.dressod in the SSDS of - : lurabs, and went in. bare feet, pjftfome to weaivParjsiiii boots with ari-lhfinity of buttons sid crushes the headof the Serpent in. the grass. with heiipttir of i high^sejß l . :.Ihe wetoinjj'bhordiJs the ■ ■ gem" of n® is a Manom'eir, ;'ihaaffliicji •ofdivorce'than" THBFUTURMMfSHOROF i -.PRAKCEi--; ■ The. of t&e, ; Times'says that in'afew'dayathe pub' . lioation of the story cr£ Charlotte Watkins, who.claims to' bethe'mother of a child of the late Prince Imperial, will be made. The story is given so much credibility that the Eugenie ' has telegraphed to the Dufc de Mouchy to make strict 'enquiry," What given weight to it is the fact that no money is demanded or apparently desired, and the effect has been continuous to hide the child. The mother is a school mistress in -Australia. Her documents are in care of Reynolds, an English, solicitor in Prance, and consists of two letters attd two telegrams, the two former unraistakeably in the Prince's handwriting,-but tliey refer to trifling questions' and appointments. The girl claim.6 she met the. Prince- (ra a railway train in October 1877. -She did not: really know Walter Louis was the Prince until after His Though his resemblanco to the Prince's photo, graphs attracted her attention, when ahespoko of it he dispelled her suspicion#. The letter closos: "I have no wish for money or support from the Imperial family. I have only seen the Empress once. That was at Oliiselhuvst, soon after his death, • She . was running down the church steps after mass, and happened to see me crying, and she instinctively put out her, hand. . My only wish is to support my own child and bring him up in France. I Wish to be a plain, obscure French citizen, .1 have often heard his father say that ha wished he was a carpenter or anything toilsome. My only' object in ' making this statement on oath is that it would bo unfair to -tbe possibilities of my boy's life nqt tp do it," The child, wbieh was afc'Bercy, is, or was, a few hours ago at the chateau . of the Marquia d'Oyloy, the Chateau de Sans Souci Bellcvue; ; where there is reason to believe important interviews are going to. take.place. The boy is said, to be the image of his reputed aire, and there- aro sundry atronj influenced in the shadow behind him. The story gets a good deal pf credence,