Theatrical.
“King Carrot” is on his last legs, it seems, at the Grand Opera-house, and those who would see him must make haste. The knowledge of
his coming end is conveyed to us by an advertisement running as follows : “The extraordinary outlay required in this superb and amusing spectacle, and the enormous success which it has met with, defer for a time the production of its succeeding novelty, but “Roi Carotte” must positively be withdrawn shortly.” The occasion of “King
Carrot’s” displacement is subsequently made clear by the following amazing announcement : “In preparation a new and remarkable sensation of a local and contemporaneous character, based upon a ‘folly’ of unique interest, now creating a furore in Paris, and adapted to events of living human purport, by Mr. Augustin Daly.” We are therefore moved to commend the current gorgeous and leguminous
specimen of contemporaneous prosopopœia to the swift attention of all who would like to delectate themselves by enjoving what will soon be of defunct vegetable purport, prior to banqueting on the “folly”
of living human purport so imminently to take its place. To say that the edge is off “King Carrot’s” attraction, and that Mr. Daly, with his usual tact and energy, is getting ready a new French play to replace it, might suit readers perhaps as well as this statement, but then it might not be as well adapted to contemporaneous audiences, who, we are led to infer, are as fond of “hifalutin” and polysyllables as
of fine clothes and pretty scenery. (…)
