Show STAGE STACE ST AGE INFLUENCE IS i MORAL SAYS BERNHARDT l l by y n a woman reporter for tor nn on magazine Sarah Bernhardt coyly consented to write her views nn on the theater and amI Its III place in the world of or art tiP till same appearing In the tile Cor lull hill Magazine Bernhardt begins uy saying that she he found the tho moral alumni on of ortha the theater constant and bone ben fo To me toe says the divine Sarah tile the theater seem like a R whose moving facets show how an attentive public the baseness oo of ot crimes crime the vices the th weaknesses of humanity the faults of ol and the absurdities of so lb cloty 1310 And It Is this Mine eallie movement which h oh While showing the tite evil shown allowS the tho tit cause of tho the evil ell that Is II such Illch a 11 fas as feature of ot the theater The theater Is III the love of my Ill life for forI I find the theater tile the meeting place pines of nil the Arts aro As AH n II complete human be hf being heing ing InK rO the tile faculties ot or nil all the theS S senses nfl i MI so II a n good theater represents the service of at all the tile arts I first my In taste In ill this direction trim I 1 was wu quits lImIts n C young girl At nt school for when there was any allY talk of one of tile the th little common to a ii 1 convent J I felt In the seventh heaven ot of delIght The drawbacks and of the theli pension li I 1 lived only In the time character I hail had to represent I was an another other r being Ing I know now that these sen en were ii th the first fint signs Ins of ot my In In unto love Jove for tor the th stage Pt for Indeed my Ill vocation must mut have been Innate as It resolved no encouragement from my m faintly Quite the contrary and It was rather with the of my may III pen peo il that 1 I made my debut as at nt the Comedic l with Mine M U t tI Hl I knew nobody In Ill Info company com pan be beyond l yond ond who aho ho w WI was as nl a kind to me as s he hall hail been beell at nt the Conserva Conservatoire toire I do not recollect eJ any strong trong emotions that of great fear tor oar but I remember r that when I held up UI my lilY Ill lung long thin arms arm for the sacrifice the time audience buret out omit laugh laughing tog ing ingWell Well do I 1 remember renumber the thrilling feeling of my m lIt lint real meal 1 theatrical tri trl triumph tn It was at the Odeon when I 1 wan tee In Athalle and nd the part ap 1 to all the tb religious 11 patriotic sentiments f lit itt f my soul foul The glow Clow gf It t mr lilT lam kindled the th audience until it t hunt Into a n tire lire of or sympathetic ap ep alI which warm 1 hI heart beart and I it hoot bodt with at liar liv livIng 1 lag Ing made a 1 real sensation I Such suffers Irradiates many days dayt of or work vork auth work there ever vr mutt must be loran an without always any nay ulti mote mate certainty of success II Filled with willi for the role roll of Anne Ann In ill Al U flumes Dumas Kean then in preparation at nt this the th Olson Odeon I learn Ih 11 part and then at the or fir o one on of or the th man rf of r th Ih theater IJ I e rd d flumes Duma In hl hi his Irn un to 10 ask him bite for Cpr the role roll The gat Jr Bt man IRan listened luok it at lit atme me Iris IW I would A d 4 I r ty but lie Ill laid had i the vart oj IS 11 r em n I i rr n ir ar arS 1 n II S default fault of her Then I As 11 you OU baT havo promised the part to two jiu yu U may nitty Just M a well pw lOmI ml e it to 10 KI ka 1 a tug Ing twell 1 I then P t tr In 10 r lu H IL Id tt tt him an eel I tx I 1 I i h f pt t least alt to rehears th pit part ir a f only bra foru ru week ek weekS S FI alu relented to let me rehear th tb rule rile tot 14 a II few hi ft i That Was Wu m chin ho Ih 0 III 4 a tor tay r in t on of the pirt part pro S 1 u lured quIte a sensation at th til rehear rehearsals r hr ar arI ails I was Willi finally engaged engage d for tor the thi run of the t time Ie piece IrleN and amid I Mas vaa deflated d to be Ilc a agrell great grell t success There are lire minds sIte she 11 declared dig dis distorted enough to think the time theater Im ito Immoral I moral hut but nothing could coull be he more un tIll true The Time theater on the tile contrary Is Isa isa a It moral Influence It Il UK Is III realize tile the roads of virtue Irlue mid nil vice lIe titers there are some who even een think It wrong ronK to take young girls to see Its 11 certain pieces La Dams Dam aux Camellias for tor example exa Ie |