act, but at last ventured to appear in a procession, as a barber who had
nothing to say. The audience immediately recognised their old favourite,
and applauded him for several minutes after he left the stage. Once more
behind the scenes, he exclaimed, "Ils m'ont reconnu! Ils m'ont reconnu!"
and burst into tears. "In one of his parts, Carpentier had some couplets
to sing, of which the first ran as follows:--

Un acteur,
Qui veut de l'auteur
Suivre en tout
L'esprit et le gout,
Doit d'abord,
De savoir son rôle,
Faire au moins le petit effort.

Here he stopped short, and repeated the verse thrice, but could get no
further; from that day a settled gloom came over him, and he soon
committed suicide, by throwing himself out of a window."

The great guns of the present Vaudeville company are, Arnal, Bardou, and
Felix; Madame Albert, lately become Madame Bignon, by a second marriage;
and Madame Doche, sister of Miss Plunkett the dancer. It would be
difficult to find five better actors in their respective styles. All of
them, with the exception, we believe, of Bardou, have performed in
London, and been received with enthusiasm as great as the chilly
audience of the St. James's theatre ever thinks fit to manifest. Arnal,
although he has formidable rivals at his own and other theatres, is
unquestionably the first French comic actor of the day. Farce is his
_forte_--we ask his pardon, and would say, comedy, vaudeville, _charge_,
extravaganza, or any other names by which it may be fitting to designate