| Show 11 1 DIVINE AN WITH THE ACTRESS ahe tells the th is ant about mir I 1 if it clr tia cr a I 1 M clr TIU she ir alln ilpo lot 11 to accuar ratio lett letter 1 I will see you at X I 1 so rn ran a line from Mada tiso bernhardt to roe me and nd at 1 3 1 I WM was avell 11 on my way to the fashionable part of 0 parts where the queen of the drama draina sara barn the litvin vint an they call her la in paris live lives approaching iLg arnhardt a house through the tiny courtyard I 1 saw aw g alonxi side the door a big bunch of purple pes and nd behind the crape grapes as a the door signal in answer to ay MY touch the neatest of 0 french inside opol the door and bowed showed me abrom to a artry pretty square hallway with stain leading up the hallway I 1 used by madarus nind acue as a a reception roo room am bea reely had I 1 seated myself when 2 I 1 lew now a figure upon the tain stairs it via BI bernhardt she bad had been Lg upon the top tep step reading by the un certain light of a col colored vired lamp but as be MW maw roe me the came ran down abe stepi tern with ft ith til bonds and a hearty I 1 RM so glad to aee see out or of conre courts she he spoke to french for bernhardt does not know engolph she site baa has always declared that alie would not learn it for fear tl it would poll apoll her preach french ai charming idiosyncrasy truly and nil one that to I 1 appreciated by loth preach and english audience audiences if foreign tan stan says a well known critic would eling to ther their awa language we should not be put to the mortification of hearing our own tongue murdered upon the stage speak correctly or not at all should be the rule fur for public speak beaken tra but we america Amerl cane are ale 00 good ratu ra Hired I 1 thought of 1 all 11 this as a smooth musical tongue not decided yet bernhardt Dern bardt can he be boughey bough ty and there Is I 1 just a suggestion of as ahe she op aks she ilan ati habit or of carrying carryl cx the head well back and sper pecking king with her eye eyes cast u slightly yet looking down at you instead of up it Is I 1 a stage trick very pretty anil and effective which gives d g anity that Is I 1 way you are very buy busy madam madame t ri liked lob oh dear yea ye abst bat ran can I 1 I 1 hae hais prompted pro to write my recall re coll tlona and for or a publisher liber and to oon soon finish the book I 1 have contract to complete my theater by the opening of the exposition and that means the earning of the necessary nece aary nony money or it business revers s have brought me low ow in money and I 1 must be active then there is I 1 a new ilav ila to select el and rehearse and the company always needs much drilling drill inc ah I 1 if f it were ere not fur for S irdon what would I 1 have done dome madame girl ial I 1 and bowed her head it wa as it dramatic moment then a merry laugh bunt burst from her lip lips for she he t 14 A creature of moode moods I 1 put that Is I 1 nettling I 1 am to 0 o clad glad that my alani let Is 1 a success at that moment there waa was a sound at the curtains ruri alir aud mid the maid ushered in a caller it wa was madame reception day and I 1 klew thit th it I 1 mut must not take jup up too much bf U her time I 1 come again 1 she murmured ai as I 1 departed and slid then she stood up and held hold hit out both hand hands again and smiled upon we one un ut of her wonderful dazzling guilles mlle aa As I 1 walked out into the warm arm august angust sunshine I 1 pondered upon thia this mandr ful woman who ho upon the aun sun act et slope ax of life a mountain till still re tain islas ill the face and of a girl 11 ab rol bahuth in complexion auth fill ill in pe pea and 1 fresh in voice lithe ai as a rat cat and possessed po Beed of all the strong qualities of manner thit this aomen woman over ga li Is today the greatest grea teat living actress at the age when root most of ui us are willing to donn down into old age she be Is I 1 k it we aup 01 truck upon rny my car as a the came forward ard with both arm hands out st stretched retched she book nine mine cordially and pulled pull me toward a curling tete a tete one of 0 the sort in which ou on face fe each eh other though fitting sitting on opposite sides lou ou see me at a die dis advantage declared madane laugh angly tor for I 1 am alone uy my friend who has ha been wf lilting elting me we Is away an ay and I 1 like never to be alone this house was as built for roan man guest guests and I 1 am neier neer without tome some one 1 I our ton son T oh now eald said miwame m adame touching the lare late upon the gown aa an though she he would place plate her hand upon her heart you mention the dearest and kindest fel ow in the world I 1 love and he loves love we m jae is ih i ah h most devoted or MC eiery ei cry day he me and many times some goals day days to see how bow I 1 am am I 1 lonely he be do doe not leave me am I 1 sad he brings me bright ilo flo ilov api v e ra and pel vote and book books he ile ita darling lar ling maurice Mauri eq As ame spoke she he dialed glai ed around the room which was filled tilled with many beautiful objects perhaps the gifts of maurice there were many email small clocks locks c for I 1 learned afas ernani aft ard that she I 1 Is very food ot of time and there were vases and toy chairs and rus yet ye t the he room ro OM ait relic rellis ed oil from bohe dohe finity by tj the be similarity of thi th i etyle style of ornament ta bibich all belonged to the pure r kronen r renaissance and sere ere not scattered Katt ered article articles of virtu and brica brie a brae brac of all nation nations I 1 air an rest t ing bow said madame for in a few I 1 day I 1 start upon in my tour of the brov inces I 1 iball play my hamlet en tire ly for it la Is the gera geralt test iceie ic eee of rry i life if fe I 1 like to play it it biere ti arc I 1 Is a albut it shall I 1 go to amer arner lie ac I 1 bobo bopo 0 o for I 1 loe your people thy TW are 0 so o appreciative I 1 could play for the them forever and now aou ou mutt must have a pen picture of bernhardt Hern hardt she Is petite though to 0 o light slight that you take her for taller than the he Is I 1 do not abit k she la Is over five feet thre e he weighs blui pounds and her lair Is alight a light bade shade of natural rel red it li to curly and ill she adars it in a french coil coll from which ripples curl around i her face her complexion Is pink and i her teeth jart white and eveia hr lier bands hands are the long slim onca ones of the be arlitt hit hilt 0 so o delicate that you wonder how she the could ever hare bandied the larre fiure figures she will ell tell you that she he modeled the future of that I 1 canno speak accurately eald said mada ame a abut but I 1 shall play here neit next year in my own abate which I 1 am build cow now pu my next phy pitaya that is to planning new achievements and at the timo time when A hen many of us are counting our ehe she la Is counting the new deeds that lie before her for accomplishment ment ant ille has grandchildren Sau rife Is a great man of over thirty pit hi t bernhardt hardt alne ali ne of all who surround her Is fresh and youthful lion ou have heard how this woman forty years ago went on the stage at the theat r francaise Fran calse in a small part and how bow she made a failure she was so thin so untaught yet so earnest that the audience ridiculed her for ten years she struggled then came success in ISSO she he was at pt the very height of her first fame and in that year she modelled modeller model led statuary fainted painted for the salon played to packed houses successfully cess fully toured america and set all paris gossiping with her eccentricities one of obese was to sleep in her coffil which the she continually decorates decora teu anew with A ith e bit bits of lace lice and choice silk for the becomingness of the final n ament her ifer latest and greatest success Is in tbt the role of hamlet the pan part which was played by charlotte cushman Cu sliman with indifferent gueess and by anna dickenson ith failure other women have tried hamlet and tailed failed ellen terry predicted defeat trough ale hoped for the best and no one presaged ged success ms hut but bernhardt Bern hardts a hamlet 1 I the bor jer of the century in et ageland As I 1 pasted away from bernhardt Dern hardts a home I 1 looked back madalee was S ut lending anding at the window fallow v her ba back c k to the pane the lovely long unbroken lines of her celestial clet lal blue robe showed through 0 the glass and her clear aed rei hair gleamed above around her neck was a string of many colored beads which bich supported I 1 remember a lorgnette As I 1 looked madame moved ard the long sinewy line of her figure pasel paned out of sight wonderful Nonder fut woman I 1 raid said and a passerby passer by stopped a and ad echoed my words yes bernhardt Is wonderful full ANNIE II 11 |
