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90 to be duped by any such trick; and their determination to establish a true People's Theater at Paris is not in the least shaken.

But meantime, while we wait, with fewer illusions perhaps and more experience, for them to take up the temporarily interrupted projects, the People's Theater slowly develops, here and there. Among the more or less happy experiments undertaken in this period of reaction, we may point to the Coopération des idées, the Théâtre populaire of Belleville, and the Théâtre du Peuple of M. Beaulieu.

On December 3, 1899, the People's Theater of the Coopération des idées opened its doors at number 157 Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Since that time there has been a series of almost continuous performances. Unfortunately the hall was too