ABSTRACT
A fine sword combat ensues, in the course of which the Frenchman’s sword is broken, when the Corsican, to accommodate himself to circumstances, breaks his own sword likewise, and the fight is kept up with the points only, secured to the hands by means of a twisted handkerchief. The selection seems to have been made from a desire to furnish something which should strike as much from its strangeness as from its novelty. The Corsican brothers, though not affording much scope for mental delineation, were personated with excellent effect by Mr. C. Kean. Mr. Wigan played Chateau-Renaud, the accomplished villain of high life, with admirable effect. The Corsican brother has been shown as dashed with anxiety; the Parisian brother is pictured as anything but mirthful, in a scene of extreme revelry and excitement. Theatrical first-nights at leading houses have become in effect a kind of art conversazione and meeting place of many friends. .
