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"What are you going to do when you come back from America?" he asked me, after we had exchanged greetings. "I really don't know. Nothing. I have not thought of anything." "Well, I have thought of something for you. And if you like to make your reappearance in Paris in a play of Victorien Sardou's, I will sign with you at once for the Vaudeville." "Ah!" I cried. "The Vaudeville!
But these theatric devices, in Dennery's hands or in Sardou's, would have existed for their own sake solely; but in Ibsen's, effective as they are, they have a deeper significance. He is able to avail himself of the complicated machinery of the "well-made play," to flash a piercing light into the darker recesses of human nature.
Hence the formula of Sardou's melodramas. His heroines are almost always Sarah Bernhardts, luring, tremendous, doomed to die. Fédora, Gismonda, La Tosca, Zoraya, are but a single woman who transmigrates from play to play.
She stopped short upon seeing three strangers, and her eyes sought Sardou's, full of startled surprise. "I have taken the liberty of disturbing you, little friend.... I want to present you to the Princess de Bernecourt." Esperance curtsied with pretty grace.
There, with that present sober air of yours, you'd pass anywhere for such an anachronism. But to be serious, and to give you advice which is positively bilious with gravity, I should say, investigate this thing fully; make a study of this ancient charmer. By the way, why not begin by going to see Davenport in Sardou's 'Cleopatra'? You have never seen her in it, have you?"
Esperance felt more touched by the affectionate admiration of her comrades, than she had been even by the applause the day of the first presentation of Victorien Sardou's play at the Vaudeville. In the afternoon she received the same kind of ovation for her competition for the first prize in comedy. When she came out of the Conservatoire they would have unharnessed her carriage, but Mlle.
This was perhaps better than that in Sardou's "Thermidor," and the tableaux were decidedly better. The scene at the "Festival of the Supreme Being" was also very striking, and in many respects historical; but, unless I am greatly mistaken, the performance referred to did not take place as represented, but in the garden directly in front of the Tuileries.
I just said to myself...." Esperance shivered, guessing what was coming, and interrupted the good woman quickly, "Don't talk to me Marguerite, to-night. I am tired and I must go to sleep." But she did not sleep. The last presentation of Sardou's play was a veritable ovation for Esperance. Flowers were presented to her on the stage.
'You must not allow Sardou's masterpiece to grow cold, said Gertrude; and Juliette came tripping back again, with the grave man at her heels. 'You will take this to the post, said Madame la Baronne, indicating the letter on the salver the maid carried. 'You will see it registered personally, and bring me the receipt. The grave man bowed, and retired, letter in hand. 'You like your coffee, Mr.
Be sure not to miss it; for we have seats for Sardou's new comedy to-morrow night. By to-morrow night," he added laughingly, "little Julie here will be an old lady it is such an age from now until then." The next morning the train bore Philip to one of the loveliest spots within thirty miles of Paris. An hour's walk through green lanes brought him to M. Cherbonueau's estate.
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