ABSTRACT
The Daily New" in speaking of the Theatre Franc;ais, says :-" The Societaire, are twenty in number-ten of .either sex-and a quorum of seven among them, all men, constitutes the managing committee, who regulate questions of" finance and decide, under the manager's presidency, as to the acceptance or rejection of piec~s. Formerly ladies were allowed to sit on the committee, but it was found that their judgments were not always dictated by luminous impartiality, or that when the judgments were in themselves sound, the style of expressing them was not so-as in the case of the lady who wrote on a voting ticket je 'refuse cette piesse parceqlt' elle eet movaise." Would one Instance of wrong spelling in a gentleman associate have been considerea as sufficient reason for excluding all gentlemen?
