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"I think she's a regular actress, Dolly, and that she wanted to make me feel absolutely sure she was on our side, so that we would both be there in that trap when she and Peter came back." "It's a good thing he was such a coward, Bessie." "Oh, I think he'd be brave enough if he just had to fight with a man, so that it was the sort of fighting he was used to.
But besides supplying panem he also provided circenses to an extent never known even in the days of Louis XV. State aid was largely granted to the chief theatres, where Bonaparte himself was a frequent attendant, and a willing captive to the charms of the actress Mlle. Georges.
Oldfield, we shall present the reader with the following anecdote concerning that celebrated actress, which discovers the true manner of her coming on the stage; the account we have from a person who belonged to Mr. Rich, in a letter he wrote to the editor of Mrs. Oldfield's Life, in which it is printed in these words; In your Memoirs of Mrs.
"Why, how could that give her a reputation as an actress?" "It didn't it only made her name familiar. People want to see her play because her name is familiar, but they don't know what made it familiar, because they don't remember. First, she was at the bottom of the ladder, and absolutely obscure wages thirteen dollars a week and find her own pads." "Pads?"
Such a piece as this, it will be seen, makes the highest demands upon an actress.
At first only the people of the neighborhood knew anything about these amateur performances; but presently a lady of rank, one Mme. du Gue, came out of curiosity and was fascinated by the little actress. Mme. du Gue offered the spacious courtyard of her own house, and fitted it with some of the appurtenances of a theater. From that moment the fame of Adrienne spread throughout all Paris.
Really, that did stagger me! I must confess I can't tell what to make of the girl. Anyhow, she knows, which is the principal thing, and no matter how remarkable an actress she may be for her age, she must care. It wouldn't be human not to care for such a story about her own mother and father. Yet she took it so impersonally! I can't get over that. And she actually ate a good luncheon!
One can see it in the way in which she takes Venice: there isn't a scrap of her little as she knows about it that isn't keen and interested and wide-awake!" "Well, after all," I reminded him as he was settling down to his books, "we know nothing about her as an actress." "We shall see," he said; "I will find out something about that too before long." 'August 17-19. 'And so he has!
"He is a poet, mademoiselle, from the provinces. I forgot to present him to you; you are so beautiful to-night that you put the Complete Guide to Etiquette out of a man's head " "Is he so rich that he can afford to write poetry?" asked Florine. "Poor as Job," said Lucien. "It is a great temptation for some of us," said the actress.
The water will not do for birds, nor the air for fishes. I am an actress by nature, and the atmosphere of the theatre is my native air; in it alone do I breathe freely; even its unpleasant odours are sweet to my nostrils. Real, everyday life seems very dull and flat.
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