"MASKS AND FACES."

" Masks and Faces " will be produced ab the Opera House this evening. The plot is a capital ono. The heroine, Peg Woffing bon, was one of bhe greatest actresses of the last century. Quin,Kitty Chive and Colley Cibber, were all alive at the time and made their appearance in " Masks and Faces." The first acb is the green room of the Covent Garden Theatre. There we meet Mr Ernest Vane, a newly married country gentleman, who has lefb his wife at home, and is visiting London for the first time. He becomes acquainted with Peg Woffingbon, being introduced to her by his town friend, Sir Charles Pomander. He very soon falls desperately in love wibh hor and represents himsolf to her as a single man, and Peg returns his love and accepts him as her plighted lover. Sir Charles Pomander has an adventure of gallantry. A country lady's coach has been overturned, and ho assists her to proceed to London, and being struck with her beauty he proposes and is rejected. Immediately after he sends a letter to Peg Woffington, offering her " a house.horses.coach,money, etc." This offer she positively refuges.ln the mean time, Sir Charles finds out that the country lady whom he recently aided is Ernest Vane's wife. He makes up his mind to revenge himself upon Peg Woffington by contriving that Mrs Vane should reach her husband's house upon the very nighb when Ernesb Vane has invibed Peg Woffington and a theatrical party to supper. The second acb is the supper party. A minuet is danced—a very striking feature of the play. Mrs Vane returns, finding her husband false to her, and a distressing scene is averted by a clever ruse of Peg's, who renders Poman der's scheme comparatively abortive. The third act takes placo in a garret occupied by James Tiplet, acbor, painber, and dra mabic aubhor. He is starving, as no manager will produce any of bis plays, and nobody will buy his paintings. One day, Peg Woffington goes to him, and oilers to sit for hor portrait and her presence brightens up the garreb and brings food and wine for the wife and chil dren. Mabel Vane arrives to inquire the address of Peg Woffington, when the two women confront each other. 