Show 1 = IEB3fEARDT AGAIN r L THE SPIRITED SARAH APPEARS IN WASHINGTON 4 tIer Late Trip to Mexico Havana and South AmericaCaptivating Emperors and Others of High Degree He Brilliant Bril-liant Reception in the Capital Special Correspondence La Bernhardt is in Washington setting the corpulent statesmen crazy and wrecking dip omatic hearts at a ruinous rate This is her econd tour of the United States and for ome reason known to her and her manager ilono she selected Washington as the scene < f her first attack She came flying straight ihrough from the City of Mexico where she lias been having glory and making money galore With only twentythree hours rest she umped on the boards and played Camille layed with all the old time pathos grace ie and sweetness and the audience which as as brilliant ns the heavens on the even ag of the Fourth of July expressed their en t msiasm in enormous floral designs pronged pro-nged applause and plenty of sympathetic Mid extremely salt tears She gave a flower to Armand Philip Gar flier in just such a way as melted the admiring admir-ing hearts of the stout statesmen at once And she made the forlornness of Camilles life take bold of them like the grip of fate 80 far there seems no doubt that she is in for a run through the country successful asher as-her first In Panama Mme Bernhardt had great i Miivess Four performances brought S lbGOO I The last performance fell upon u jubile day Toe story goes that she was just coming on for her first scene in the last act when the Inn on the outside began A big bomb ex plolltl in front of the theatre door and was followed by a rattling discharge of little bombs Mine Bcrnhardc gave a convulsive convul-sive leap not down in the play and fell flat upon the stage She has fainted she has fainted was the cry all oer the house A big matteroffact American called out Fainted Shes kicking like n Texas steer 1 And so she seemed to be Her heels were beating a rattattat on the finer and her petticoats were flying about rudderless and nobody dared to go near lieI The house followed the Texans lead and roared They laughed all they wanted to and then guyed Bernhnrdt stood it all keeping up the kicking faint lo the end The curtain fell the audience tioopl 1 out after being informed that the ladys oldl ion ren dcMil u i mpossiblo to po on with the pln Jiree men en i r 1 out and k ilep > her in a can rue And the story ij s on to say 1 that tt the time I i she hlll I reached 3 her huicl 1 she was able to dispel the f j delusion that she speaks no English t and not a soul slept V1 j in the house until 4 oclock the next I morning BERNHARDT Il Rio she capti atul Dom Pedro Ho had a box at her u > riomances every night and personally thanked her for the ploiiiin she Imd given him She found the iiifst ypitfi U t i o nurluiiwj in Rio Havana and S > xico C ili she bleed not Her esti m itc of lJeI audiences there is i that they were stupiil llH1pplecin lye 1l1Hl ignorant i Havana and J1 xico went crazy over her In Havana the Fionoh consul gave a private Inill fight in her honor at which young Bernhardt and monitors of the company acted as matadors It is only fair to say that the bull was an amateur also Mine Bernhardt received various presents on her late trip Monkeys tiger cats and other beasts Intro been given her without stint In South America she said with a shrug that she had had Not a sensation not an adventure She is going into her repertoire liberally cwnlirg FrouFrou Fedora Le Maitre do Forges as well as CIIl 11 ill e This wondeiful woman d1fis with the Famo extrionhnary art and gm o which ehanieUiried her costunxs Avlicii hre before be-fore She has really done much to sht how lovely a woman can dress s 110 discards fashion and follows bounty Of all tho roles assumed by this eccenhic tingedienno none are so interesting as the role of Bernhault Her own pcisonality excels ex-cels all the characters in her alt She has that in her which compels the iiltciHon of the world the world she defies dt > si vs and I often insults She has demonstrate 1 thuoM Pienchmans assertion that tho world < < 1 is i a dog Show it that you fear it and it will tear you in pieces Dry it and it will hang its head in fear Three or four years ago a correspondent told how one day Mine Bernhardfc wHl seated at the wings of the stage sin i omuliM by a group of admirers enjoying lur I triumphs jumped to her feet and with II i fomber expression cried out What a life what n life I am dying of ennui One of the 1 gentlemen present ventured to remark that she was rather difficult to please as there was no existence in modern times compai al lo to hers and one would have to go back to the ago of the Czarinas like Catherine II to find a woman so obeyed praised l applauded and adored Well gentlemen she said I am perhaps rather exacting but the end I ah the end How will it all finish I hope the denouement will be most dramatic and striking strik-ing What a fine end it would have been if Ilochefort was shot when he was attvmptiig his escape There would have been n fifth 1 rt t for you GanUwtta ended l well Casting a glance around at tho little circle of ndiiM MN she said Tell mo frankly how you think I shall end At first t no one answered but t finally a young actor who was playing in tin cast of FrouFrou shrugged his MioiiMn nnd with a drawling accent of the Pu isisn gamin said You How will you end It does not take much to guess at that As a box opener in a theatre Mme Sarah took this in good part and insisted that she found his answer very amusing GERTRUDE GARRISON |