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Then he would assume a high-pitched voice, shrill, nasal, labored, solemn tones, a tremolo, a bleat, wide, sweeping, fluttering gestures like the beating of wings: exactly like Mounet-Sully. Christophe tried hard to discover exactly how far Roussin believed in his Socialism. It was obvious that at heart he did not believe in it at all: he was too skeptical.
The Queen assured the tragedian of the admiration that she had long felt for him, for Mounet-Sully played almost every year in Brussels; but all her kindly enthusiasm was directed towards Esperance. "What a perfectly delicious voice!" she said. "How old are you?" "Seventeen, Madame." The Queen undid a bracelet from her arm.
But Hollingshead and Mayer, his partner, did not see things in this light, and they declared that the contract would not be binding if either Croizette, Mounet-Sully, or I did not go. The agents, who had bought two hundred thousand francs' worth of tickets beforehand, also refused to regard the affair as binding on them if we did not go.
Yet he did not hesitate to steal Othello when he wanted to write Zaïre, or, rather, he went out on the boulevards, picked out the first good-looking barber he could find, dressed him up in Eastern garments, and then fancied that he had created a French Othello." "I saw Mounet-Sully at one of the performances of your Othello" I remarked.
Sarah Bernhardt exerted every nerve and fibre, and her passion grew with the excitement of the spectators, for when, after a recall that could not be resisted, the curtain drew up, M. Mounet-Sully was seen supporting the exhausted figure of the actress, who had won her triumph only after tremendous physical exertion and triumph it was, however short and sudden."
Jean did not hear this, he was gazing at Esperance, so pretty in her feather toque. "We are come, uncle, expressly to ask your permission to accompany my cousin to Brussels. We were told of the project yesterday by Mounet-Sully, and if you approve...."
Sarah Bernhardt, Judic, Theo, Granier, and twenty others, and Mme. de Reske, Coquelin, Mounet-Sully, Paulus, etc., present, followed by concerts, the comedies of Dumas, of Meilhac, Halevy and Sardon. We had only one thing to mar it, one drama by Becque which seemed sad, but which subsequently had a great success at the Comedie-Francaise. In fact all Paris came. The enterprise was launched."
Then they had a chromo-lithographic ideal, based on romantic and fashionable books of verses, and poetic fashion-plates, they fell in love with actors, virtuosi, authors, dead and alive Mounet-Sully, Samain, Debussy, they would exchange glances with young men at concerts, or in a drawing-room, or in the street, and at once begin to weave fanciful and passionate love-affairs, they could not help always wanting to fall in love, to have their lives filled with a love-affair, to find some excuse for being in love.
He does things well," commented Adhemar, but he did not breathe a word concerning his conversation with the Count that morning. Before there was time for a reply a waiter entered with a card. "M. Mounet-Sully would like to come up." "Oh! yes," cried out the young artist with delight.
"It is fortunate that I shall not see her, I think that I should be paralyzed!" "Perhaps she will send for you after the rehearsal," returned the tragedian. "She is a patroness of art, and very kind to artists." "Will His Majesty, King Leopold, come this evening?" demanded Meydieux, with great interest. "Certainly," Mounet-Sully assured him.
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