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"But, Monsieur, if I do not succeed you will lose money, and I cannot agree to that." "Do not be afraid," he said. "I can assure you it will be a success a colossal success. Will you sign? And I will also guarantee you fifty performances!" "Oh no, never! I will sign willingly, for I admire the talent of Victorien Sardou, but I do not want any guarantee.

"Oh, dear papa, in spite of yourself, I see this depression comes back to you. I want to succeed, and so drive away your heavy thoughts." "Then," said Sardou quickly, to relieve them all of the emotion they were feeling, "it is quite agreed."

Is he a member of the gang?" Jennings had once witnessed a drama by Victorien Sardou, entitled in the English version Diplomacy. Therein a woman was unmasked by means of a scent. It seemed to him that perfume also played a part in this case. Why should Clancy, Mrs. Herne, Hale, Maraquito and Thomas use a special odor?

George Broadhurst or Henry Bernstein or Arthur Wing Pinero, or others like them, have always been the popular playwrights; a few names like Sophocles, Terence, Molière, Shakespeare, and Ibsen come rolling down to us, but they are precious and few. A great actor, indeed, can put life into perfectly wooden material. In the case of Sarah Bernhardt, who was the creator, the actress or Sardou?

Together they questioned the import of this visit, without being able to find any satisfactory explanation. When Francois entered the salon, Sardou was standing, his hands clasped behind him, examining through half-closed eyes a delicate pastel, signed Chaplain a portrait of Madame Darbois at twenty.

In the evening I went to the Lyceum Theatre, saw Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in Sardou's "Robespierre," and for the first time in my life was woefully disappointed in them. The play is wretchedly conceived, and it amazes me that Sardou, who wrote "Thermidor," which is as admirable as "Robespierre" is miserable could ever have attached his name to such a piece.

Here in itself was a miniature triumph, repressed by the dignity assumed by all the judges, but which Esperance appreciated none the less. She bowed with the sensitive grace characteristic of her. Genevieve Hardouin and Jean Perliez congratulated her with hearty pressures of the hand. As she was leaving Sardou stopped her in the vestibule.

A most flattering ovation was waiting for me on my arrival. Then, three days afterwards, installed in my little mansion in the Avenue de Villiers, I received Victorien Sardou, in order to hear him read his magnificent piece, Fedora. What a great artiste! What an admirable actor! What a marvellous author!

He has discredited though he has not destroyed the artificial "drawing-room play;" he has poured ridicule upon the so-called "well-made play" which Scribe, Sardou, and their school could concoct for the delight of Frenchmen; he has exposed the insignificance of the accidents and catastrophes, and the coming down of the curtain "on a hero slain or married."

He now thinks you great, and calls you 'the American Sardou. ... I have put all our dismal hours behind me. 'All this, too, shall pass away. ... I care not to what audacity you wing your way, if only you come back to us your good, sane, undaunted self once more." In this letter, as in all her intercourse with him, there was restraint, as though love were being counselled by prudence.