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SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMRER 16, 1995. Pk PR A TIAL . a THE WORE: AMET ORES RAE DEE G i (SSS tess ALA) ee eawam aw oe Se! FW PUMARILG AADAIT, VIVE A CREATURE Oe sierra ita ive V/ WIARLLO VAILINE T started off like a funeral, At first I feared Madame had . | phase of the ehara ‘© | caused one of her retinue to glan | taken a notion to die without i ‘have not seen.” rehon ly from his particular | waiting for the evening per- eee |) "What, In your opinion, will th "IL know It must have been formance. 4 Rreat actrees of the future be changed uv is beautifull” Her shadow, the Svengall-like Mayer, opened the door | « and the conversation with a whisper, and led the way on tip-toe through | & file of attendants, who stood like her head and looked nd helpless when Ibsen was mile lay idea the drama ts ver play am Ibsen role, 60 many graven images to Madame's 1 don’t und tand Tbs Iy, Women. How can a mother go away sitting-room, overlooking the park at y ; though move- | and Teave her children, as Nora does the Hote! Majestic. There were flow- good, rt He 1 don't under: ers enough for at least two stylish : ee stand that “Ta Aband a. ee hth funerals, among them a bunch of have dents tome th possible, T cannot roses that almost broke their stems 4 learned to give us the truth, ideally | understand Nora. [ could not play ane Ney Lior NOPE hoa ie ented, Rostand and Hervieu| her, 1 think also that Ibsen's plays . Male and female “help s~ typify this advance, For example,|are very, very local to his country | posed theneelves about the room with a gravity that would have ~ Drought Joy to the soul of an un- dertaker. broke clammy wonderful than tho Lyrlo's her at any time this she sighed, the lashes oyes flickering iy a i 8. vi | the der ‘ . mor erty 4) i stare has shown any h week. of leonine eyes am and her carmine lips part- | {ng in-a emile, as she came forward | holding out a hearty hand. Her hair reminded me of a field of ripened wheat struck by a high wind, was so golden and 80 | tossed ut. Her eyes and her hair, their fascination is equal, while hery srhile bre in a curling wave over @ face that is like stgne in {ts repose Tho bizarre effect was heightened by , a huge bow of white tulle tled under her chin. She wore a house gown ¢° | white lace, with an ermine stole that 4, Peached almost to her feet. \ “Ah! eh!" purred the pleased * @arah when I pald my homage, You must always pay that to a foreign | tar, even {f you don't tip the bell- boy. The correct way to do this is to slap your right ‘hand over your left breast pocket and assume an ex- pression of acute indigestion, “Ah, yes; last night (this was Tuesday) | was really touched,” she éaid, turning her eyes to heaven, | ing, then lowering them meekly to the! , Love, is the grea test, the’ Primordial] Passion.” Occasionally Mr. Mayer the silence with a smile, Everything was so qnlet that I dis- tinctly heard his smile. I was be- ginning to feel uncomfortable, al- most when there was a swish and a swirl and a gust of) words, the opening of a door, and wonderful Bernhardt, looking Ta | read a part a few times, yes; but I! never study it systematica ly. It ts always Inspiration—never work, I couldn't work,” with a laugh, “ft is always to inspiration that I trust The details come to me when IT am playing a role, and every night I learn something new. It ts such a joy to me when everything goes well. There is no other joy like it—that , direct communication that I feel with an audience, I give myeelf to the public so completely, and tt under- stands me, Does not a writer feel something like that? But his com- | munication cannot be so direct; is that not co? From the stage to the| audience, it is immediate. At once the effect is felt. I would do a hun- dred times the work for such a re-| ward,” *Whish of your roles do you like best “Always the one I am playing,” 4 smile playing about the answer. | “Phedre is perhaps my most d{ficult, | my most complete role; Camille the | most sympathetic one. I feel for her so much. She {s to me the modern Magdalen, the sinful woman renewed —ah, ah, what should I say?” she writhed impatiently. “Yes, yes; purified—purified by her love, that {s {t, That is my concep- comes not, and I am hard, I cannot tion of her, But I don’t think Du- “You find your tour fatiguing?” cry. There is nothing here,” and mas’s was the same, for once ites seventh floor of the Majestic, | N-n-non,” she demurred, ‘I } he smote her chest with an ungentle, ! tuned with him about i Mar- | “1 geot all myself—all!” she eried, | have never played so many different hand. | guerite, and told him she was . ty breaking into broken English, and | Toles as this time, but I like it, It} “Never do I play the same part | 4 the modern Mag aan bean throwing herself back in her chalr, | is good for me, the variety, The|twice In the same way. I have the; (@ shrug) “and said e Un fh her arms stretched wide, “It was | changing moods, they act as a tonie.| broad outlines of the character In| 1 could see he didn't the ¥ fa ie | truly magnificent, was {t not? And| One day I am this, the next day that,)my mind, I make for myself a Ilne- Whee} sia aa we Saving I was 60 tired—so tired!—at the end | nd {f my mood and my role are in| drawing, as {t were, but I must wait | question of intense lore, the Bie that I could not speak. My nerves | harmony then the God comes to me for the inspiration to give me the, One” rose to it until she was ha "Then the God Comes aR , and his race can only be thoroughly understood But whatever fotm | ‘Le Dednle’ is a magnificent play.” "Do you know that Nethersole has I am vengeance. love takes it Is in me.” . se and I am at my best. It; is 80 In|rest. Sometimes {t comes—sometimes | out of her chair. “The inspiration doesn't wane) failed in it here?” vy Seandinaylans or Germans, | had) sett pn. uta nc | the third set of ‘Camille,’ when the! it doesn't—volla!” |, nave ss the sreateat, the Primor-| with much repetition?” “Yes, [ know; but it fs not the a long talk with him once on this yes.” God fs in me.” Sho shrugged and smiled, and con- | dial passion, the mainspring of allthe| me tong, thin Bernhanit arms|stme, They must have changed It.”| subject, He said to me: ‘You Latins She touched her breast lightly and | fessed herself a creature of inspira-| Others. It Is the one that through | went up in protest. ‘| “yon have not seen the play,! see a great many things in my plays pears i labedeceaaanedet it od gazed soulfully at my derby hat, Hon. all changes make an unchanging ap- “Never,” she declared. “On the! madame," suggested the suave Mr., that are not there. Your Latin ac- aginary knife and contracted her . ‘face into a mask of pain, finishing with a sigh that soared to the ceil- “Work! she repeated in a purzled | peal. way, when the Idea was suggested. “I don’t consider that I work. ‘Thengl cry, I sob in my dreseing- room for ten minutes after the our- tain, At other times the God h* ARAH IN “MAGDA”; WILLARD IN. KIPLING. It {s the role which typifies @| contrary, every time 1 play a role {t| Mayer tresses do such things to Nora that | Sreat passion that T love, In ‘Camille’ | grows more real, 1 know it better, That makes no difference,” in T hardly know her,’ 1|1 am love all- pasting: In ‘Fedora’ [My eyes are opened to some new! sisted Sarah, with a gesture that _Maateritack's name brought a flut-| . AMUSEMENTS, | tient tenseenannenees aaaease Tally, found {t hard to eet sustenanca| out ef Jama and tollypops all, isn't Bellini, wath Mielodies and harmonies, lls trills and seales, merely a | candy-shop keeper ky formance ui musical ¥ People’s Symphony Concerts. ae GONGERI SIN ra dmirable ‘ono arly at her : ¢ ME, BERSHARDT will next week | Dever. and the Casino Olris at the! Sembrich and Crean ae sof her g m3 bec. 16 “SUBURBAN NG add two more plays, "Magda’’ Gotham, \ voice was missing and or twice : and “La Tesea,"' to her extraord- VAUD! i ae was scant of brea what a 9) * ternight' tepertele. ‘The Buber: | Col, Breosttens Veen | Caruso Revive iad Se eta nae et BT HE n drama will be given on Tuesday | star at the Colon‘al, w: “ Me 4“s ” Caruso, as Elyino, if, which, e by y olon‘al, where the bill will nett nore 2 * » w 8. means that f the ‘out of tenors Piantet, i som arto ty Wnathy ide ‘Lv Harve ee Waa La Sonnambula, [Ree Ra a te SS elas Le htion, BE SURE 10 SEE IT M - | troupe of Russian dancers. Hal Davis |donna, 1f the truth be told, ft was @ URCUUSTHA OF KEVE % geen as Pastor Hefferding, and in| his name that crowded the house, out T rs Heller's and Ines Macauley tn "Pa! the ventriloquist, and others, There was a picnic for the Old Guard ) Pucy " Trovallo, int, and, up to date as he may be. 4 fide of the subscription. Plineon, Conried could make little change “Tosca” he will be the sinister Scarpta. Count. completed the trio of g i aoe SALNSSIN FOR Al All il ia at the Metropolitan Opera House last! y ‘The role of Fiorta gives the French @¢-| tne Ajhamby , “ ;, 1 ow, e+ | 1 at ‘i (8, ing! toned for his Ay y \ bra will have Ned Way-|Msht, when "La Sonnambula” was te-| in the presentation of Bollin!’s old-fash and iN singing ator ‘photic Matinee To-Day.—-MADAMID Yress unusual emotional scope. The | mupn's Minstrol Mises, Cl y | vived. What @ chatter af reminiscence |foned, rule o' thumb, though tuneful, ering atter 9 iong ride | gent bb Wat RNHARDT matin tutions will be: Monday, “Adrienne | » Clayton White | i} vf boots tmnadiate of a fome |! 424 st f Bway ABURE, pe i vy and Marle Stuart tn “Dicky,” Alo there was In the lobbies! jwork, The principals came down to Lisa, Bague wis Alessio NEW AMSTERDAM ‘e Non Natit, cath Fr Db" Wedneatay Not much was heard of the last pre- | the footlights and sang at the gallerles | and he nptary, V con Money, abt Locouvreur;” afternom, jappho;"’ Fri- “the perfect woman;” the comedy acrobats; Mat- i Saturday matines, “Fe | tng n@ Ashlay, Hebrew !mpersona- Saturday night, “The Sorceress.” | toe James 'B. Donov: On Monday afternoon, at the Casino HM ” van And Bene {Arnold in “Twenty Minutes on Broad- Theatre, Mmo, Bernhardt will alt a) vais ang the I benont for the Jowish sufferers in Ri iy," an @ Italian Trio, | sia y eopearing int 8 sy Beoarpolette, At Hammerstein's will be Joseph pleg, by i wy’ ty con ant) Hart and Carrie De Marn Harry Tate's pas'in w thindeact of *! a an Toa te English company {in “Motoring,” rogramme will also inolude a ten-| O'Brien and Havel, the Rossow Mid- “chat” by Mark Twain. gets, A. O. Dunonn, ventriloquist; the Camille Trio, the Misses Tobin, the ducted. In times past {t has been necenmpry to rotest against loud talking the oxes, but Inst night @ number of occ) pants of orchestra stalls set an example of bad manners that wi leplorable by noving out during the ie! brich’s last aria, ta the annoyance of everybody else In th®ouse. They were roundly hissed. THEATRICAL MAN SLAIN: 1 Milan Mewnett Killed and Abbot " | Capitaine, i M vious performance of this opera tn the present house which was given In 181, Then Marle Yan Zandt was the unfor- tunate young woman who walked in her | sleep and was awakened to find herself in @ strange bed, Conversation dwelled rather upon the Inimitable impersona- tion of Amina by Gerster at the old Academy of Music in Col, Mapleson's day, Ah! what a delight! Tt was not diMoult to conjure up a picture of the old place, with Its crude stage settings and the less pretentious Mats, Wel, Sa i AY “ALL soa og R T'Net 8.15, TF BRUADWAY wey # ES REnat VIRGIE LIBERTY 21-"'s "4 THOMAS W. ROSS, A) YORK, Mae 8.15 RICHARD CARLE, ess, FV. A1S. Mate Day and Thu' A ie i alt thd FARLS WALLACE'S, Ev. 8.9. Mate To-daytWed. WM. FAVERSHAM=-THE SQUAW MAN, | Garrick Mute Welds GRACE GE Garden $7. Mad. ay Ey&, 16 ROBT. MANTELL 4) er, 8, Willard, at the Now Am+| Patty Brothers and others, ppearances King Lens. Davinon Shot by Hotel-Keeper, eterdam Theatre, will on Monday night] ‘The Sunny South.” with ‘a band of i a S 14TH ST. MUSEUM | Pertnine AS Y make his first appearance in two plays, | colored singers and dancers, will be the Seat alithe : &., Deo. 14-—Mil <Q XmaeM “A Pair of Spectacles,” by sh headline attraction at Keith's, Others 1AM A DREAM ine Bub Money" Redsied a ren * fe 14th St m Ae iit San Wino Waa Pena tk ie, ey sages pacers, Frank and Rha GATIy Yoninrade by aioe cel eae . ROWS OF THORNE ney ah YW at he one of the pravrietors of the Pielmont TWICE ‘T0- WORROY, su "spay, and Annie Nevatro. in’ “Weary Inn, whero tho company was stop, li, | \ y DEC. 17 8," and Milt Weod, ‘wooden shoe Abbott, Davison,’ leading man and “ai PAD eG Movi ve fies” partner in the same company, also was [ls tt! Creedton Twenty-third Street ¢ Mountal ‘Theatre will be ‘The Girl with'the Red th ADEMY OF MUSIC, VWHATUE Jt ‘ Lath 9¢ String Pi. the week, vee shot through the abdomen and is sald It seems to me they} ‘wus PROCTOR’ Susi cl q | Barry, Sinokineriat Hore Mi yi ee ter of joy . “Maeterlinck, ah! stand bette I under His | Influence is very beautiful, very ebe- yes; and admire more, vating. I played in his ‘Pelleas and Mellisande’ with Mra, Campbell, a delicious creature—is ehe not?—#o gvaceful, so supple, so charming, I¥ was a joy to play with her.” Of her own efforts in her own the © Mme. Bernhardt sald: No, I have never been discourse aged 1 have lost much money, but it is for my art, and I do not come plain. | have learned to know, however, that the public s not ready to accept new things, It is always on the defensive. But one can fight against that by having faith in one’s self, and in the end the public will accept What you want to give it, When produced Rostand’s ‘Princesse Liotaine’ the Paris public would not come, The houses were dreadful, There was nozzing, nozaing,” she said, trying her tongue at English once more, “There was no money, but f kept on, and now they beg ma for the ‘Princesse Liotaine’ they once refused to see, Oh,” and she nodded her sunny head optimietl- cally, “the public will always come round, I don't regret any sacrifices T have made for art. If they had been a thousand times greater 2 would be satisfled—yes, happy.” As to the moral aspect of the playw Bernhardt dismissed that with: “It Is the treatment, not the aubject, that offends. Yes, I have heard what happened here recently. It {8 all im ,the treatment. You know Camille {9 ‘ also of Mrs, Warren's prsfesston, but she 1s purified; her story teaches a moral. Is {t not beautiful? If ® play ts without @ moral acting be- comes an Inferior art. The artist should educate and elevate, Other- Wise her work {s not worth while It is roles ke Camille that appeal to me.” | “Do you belleve you could have jattained the same pre-eminence in roles of another clase?” was a ques- tion that Sarah didn't appear to relish, | “But Iam a comedienne,” she pro- tested, “I have had great success fn gay comedies. Rut the appeal of comedy {s leas deep. Greatness must be attained through the tragedy, It is joy, however, to play different roles.” ‘And {s it your art that has kept you so young?” “Am T young?” Sarah laughed, “3 do not know.” Her spirita, her animation, a men- tal alertness that seemed never to tire, furnished the best answer, For further proof her parting words to the artist ‘Be sure you make me pretty—very pretty. I don't care whether it looks like me, but it must be pretty.” | CHARLES DARNTON, AMUSEMENTS. TT EMPIRE ;fuann ulier Sion MAUDE ADAMS "i.e LYCEUM & Bw nd 4th at, tt ae THE LION AND THE MOUSE CRITERION ZEA, WM, COLLIER DALY'S Srcetway a tory VIOLA ALLEN’ “of ra nat indy Weise is ¢ Ma’ sei liaise Bway & B6th, HERALD Sar Nb Matisat 218 Olga Nethersole is CARMEN, HUDSON V8 DANA We jat.2.15, Robert Loraine siwnnn Aiea eh rare. Bway & Mth (a in Alfved Walls ‘of ‘derlohe, ry joe AV, Janice Meredith, 125TH ST, Fedora, ca AD} pay CONCHA, 58 ‘gr & Mrs. “Jimmy #ino, others. Banta C wr gine at yarn ay, anhattan: r apr] ‘essen publ "ase APTRR ATLANTIC (ote car Canal ot, Orville & Frank, Dudi @ Cheslyn, Doll @& My vl to be erioualy Injured, although the jana © Dh TRON \ f ugh Bure Al Brown, Moving Pictures, Esoh- ‘Arnold Daly, with a company that now | Domino,’ Nick Long and Idaline Cot- result of the wound canndt yet be de- |eeee hi | Babes in Toy land. tady. Orch tnohides Katherine Grey and Isabelle] Mowatt, Tom Nawn and’ company, eed eval t nL te mage | MLA yw re ty ha | PASTOR’S S katate ‘Urquhart, will come to the Grand Opera~ are yin) Oy AY seratiand nah Sr ita ed ad een the | * OTM mai gon ate qe | h sr, | INvOUS “ ne roctol ty-dighth Streat i ty ; ; Witt F by pFfoure with Bernard Ghaw's “You Never) ere te rin include CUR Bers bay St A Fetes? OO the Company, ; of Myer Grand My Bellew=Raffles °° “si? Can Tell,” mac and his ponies and donkeys, Mr, gain nt i tt hm rom bd Bt. & TODA : ‘A new version ot “met Lara y aud Mrs, Lap Abe “The Yellow aeton ga Americans ¥» You Never Can Te 1ST, NICHOL: AS RINK, Lawrence Marston, Nee io ‘Nichols’ Bisters, “Raglan's ‘ ay, Ww Davison Not Know Among The- | AV ebia' ANESTENS 5 #24 st, 25, 0, Hoekey Ga ne, fo niet. bl ut ‘es ee Many “stock company at Proctor ten by Edwin Arden, will be acted by atrleal Agencies in Chicage, nope yi2t VSROAN, ARTHUR DUNN, Gonars | ities mith Amelia Bingham 10) the stock compaty ‘at Proctor's One CHICAGO, Deo, 16—Abbett Day mt) Unnay § ain © Us. Mate | ST. Ni HOLAS RINK . oan Hundred and Tweaty-ffth Street hea Caruso as Elvino, name does not appear in the C uy i Aunt 8 ath. | + NIC 4 calnebis Alt Y casbainy Ohees| ts not AF aC : + | ith $e, and Columbui aa ie art, Acee Caan dope with the same disregard of realisti tng no ’ igo of him \cetin LONIAL it oer { xeon! Mondays. Shates Sree, Quirements; the gregarious chor , merry, .merty villagers mechanically Nella ¢ : ‘ ees © =|Don't Snufflel ! fr White Cat,” will be it chief attrac- pow al Hurtig it Se. Oth 3 will Mr, ae urphy, | Pine Coal steibe:" “Calcedy Ring ot he Wir rf Allen and com, any i present.‘ when required quite in the good old err THE DEWE way of 4 generation ago; and, of course, '} Mat To-day the arias, duos, trios and quartets of i kated and Kingston end ermey Lily , | m Hive. Mat Sot.at 2, (7 —— ae : Theatre ‘will| the gore Wess ground oUt Hn Thelt yey makey prone sick--zom berm vowel | BELASCO TS TR Se re “THE GOTHAM 248 fo coate a Crown of proper order. eure. in 10 minutes || BLANCHE Bai Mat, To-tay—Cac Kerhack puciesquare me in Why The enti Sitterence there w "eH rom ae ‘olds, Beate ta Hen | BLOU : ; He ROPOLL ms oo Im and 1” will rao- re Phe old, wild, wnrepressed enthus rhe 80 8 Av, a pact and usc i ice tery’ will be put Made sb tay 4 ‘page Mt) celling and e| y' nate torne, Brit: ae é OF pa onator, | will tol only Dr, Agnew's Catarrhal Powder v s jen] contiage tho" chloe. tiUrastian "ab the Srmprich nd.) tt relieves colds and catarrh and JOE WEBER'S * 15 Aa sue Ase at th fur) Eden Musi a Kae bi he ha n Sore Ly’ THEA, Biway@2oth, ‘ BROOKLYN @ 3 . ; ; , Sgacertn tt ‘MePherson, Buffal ¥ i SF eRe naar r coh MARIP CAHIL No day. 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