THE PARIS CONSERVATOIRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9566, 24 October 1892, Page 4

THE PARIS CONSERVATOIRE.

It should bo somewhat disquieting (remarks tao Daily News) to those who believe in the twT y« f sc\ ools of dl' amatic arfc 'and ™*° think that actors and actresses can be as systematically trained as dancers are for the ballet,and equestrians for the ring, to learn eiice ot the Pans Conservatoire of Music and Declamation great fault is being found xrith the histrionic tuition imparted at the hi«Sc out that at the recent examinations no minik were pronounced worthy of the flrrt S for tragedy while the youthful exponents o f declared to be sadly "stagey" and convpn tional m their methods. The conservatoire a s at presen constituted, maintains threeX'ses mental music the, Paris Cdnservatoi c has lenaered good service to France in trainteiuied the " legitimate " French staee The Second Empirehad more than half run ite course ere the quesiion of according'liberty rf ™ sentationto alithe theatres^ Barfs wa^ot ceded In the past only the Comedie Prancaise and the Odeon-both being establishments SfeSS f 6 .State -^ PermitteT to porto.m the masterpieces in tragedy of Corneil'p Racine, and Voltaire, and ii, co4dy tW of Moliore, Regnard, and Marivaux, and in the halcyon days of modern French romanic dramas of the highest class-towards the end of the Restoratiou, and until the nn'dd'e of- tV reign of Louis Phillipe-it was still the »c wS?}- 8 7^ virfcual'y" monopolised tte dramatic talent of Victor Hu-o, Casimir Delavigne, and Alexandra Dumas.°\t a 1™" period tne same Theatre Francis earned addU tional renown by the production of some of the finest Pl eces of Ponsard, Legouvc and Scrib-