COMEDY OF MANNERS--Isabelle Lefaucheux promises her husband that she will be faithful to him. Then she remembers that she has promised the same thing to Jules, the boy who works in their store. She suffers from not being able to grant her faith and her love. However, Lefaucheux fires Jules. This event precipitates a dramatic triumph of love, and we soon find Isabelle cashier in a department store where Jules is salesman. Title: _Isabelle Lefaucheux._ HISTORICAL PLAY--The famous novelist Stendhal is the ringleader of a Bonapartist plot which ends in the heroic death of a young singer during a presentation of _Don Juan_ at the Scala Theatre in Milan. Since Stendhal had hidden his identity under a pseudonym, he withdraws from the affair admirably. Grand marches, procession of historical personages. OPERA--Buridan's ass hesitates to satisfy his hunger and his thirst. The she-ass of Balaam prophesies that the ass will die. The golden ass comes, eats and drinks. The Wild-Ass's-Skin comes and displays his nudity to this asinine herd. Passing by, Sancho's ass thinks that he can prove his robustness by carrying off the child, but the traitor, Melo, warns the Genius of la Fontaine. He proclaims his jealousy and beats the golden ass. Metamorphoses. The Prince and the Infant make their entrance on horseback. The King abdicates in their favor. PATRIOTIC PLAY--The Swedish government lays suit against the French Government for manufacturing an imitation of "Swedish matches." In the last act they exhume the remains of an alchemist of the XIVth Century who invented these matches, at La Ferté-Gaucher, a village in France, not far from Paris. COMEDY---- _The handsome chauffeur Cried to his neighbor If you will show me your salon I wilt show you my kitchen._ Here is enough to nourish a whole career of playwriting, sir. M. LACOUFF, SCHOLAR Young man, it is also important to know theatrical anecdotes; they help to fill out the conversation of a young dramatic author; here are a few: Frederick the Great was accustomed to having his court actresses whipped before each presentation. He believed that flagellation communicated a rosy tint to their skin which was not without its charm. At the court of the Grand Turk, the _Bourgeois Gentilhomme_ was being played, but in order to adapt it to the taste of the environment the _mamamouchi_ became a Knight of the Garter.[9] Cecile Vestris, while returning to Mayence, one day, had her carriage held up by the famous Rhenish bandit Schinderhans. She rallied her spirits against this ill-fortune and danced for Schinderhans in the hall of a roadside tavern. Ibsen was sleeping one time with a young Spanish lady who cried out at the proper moment: "Now!... now!... Mr. Dramatist!"