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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 76, 28 March 1908, Page 13

Two scenes not included in the programmes enlivened recent performances at two theatres in Paris. A middle-aged gentleman of distinguished appearance in evening dress, sitting in the balcony stalls at the Gomedie Francais, gave vent to great enthusiasm during the play. He at last became so exuberant that fc's applause drowned tbe actors' voices. His neighbours begged him to restrain his feelings. Thereupon he started up, and, in a voice of thunder, pronounced a curse upon house and stage alike. The police removed him, and his pockets were searched, as he refused to give any information about himself. All that was found on him was the manuscript of a five-act drama in verse. Writing it seems to have sent him off his bead. He is now in the police infirmary. At another theatre, a little playhouse on the Boulevards, Count Mathieu de whose "wife is the authoress of "Le Visage Emexveille," and other passionate poems, seemed put out after witnessing, a, few; scenes