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Updated: May 26, 2025
The winter season had begun; and all those wanderers who had been basking through the autumn under the blue skies that roof the Pyrenees, or dawdling away existence in German gambling-saloons, or climbing Alpine peaks, or paddling down the Danube, flocked back to the central city of civilization in time to assist at Patti's reappearance in the Rue Lepelletier, or to applaud a new play of Sardou's at the Gymnase.
To-morrow!" "Without waiting to hear Melba?" "Yes to-morrow!" "Or Sarah Bernhardt in Sardou's new play?" "To-morrow! To-morrow morning, early! What is anything compared with your getting well?" "And your new summer costume that Doucet has not finished? How about that?" Marcello laughed gaily and emptied his glass. But Regina rose and knelt down beside him, laying her hands on his.
Special engagement of Miss Fanny Davenport. For one week. Beginning Monday, the 12th of December, Sardou's 'Cleopatra." I was indeed surprised, but I said nothing. The next thing I handed him was a copy of Godey's Magazine, several years old. He opened it carelessly, and in a moment read the following line: "I am dying, sweetheart, dying." "Doesn't that sound familiar?
This sounds perilously like an invitation to players to take the centre of the stage close to the footlights, but of course the matter is one of degree. Sardou's precepts may be pushed too far, and we do not need a whole first act of nothing in particular, but facts should be recognized and simple common-sense considered. There is always some trouble during the first few minutes of each act.
One evening had sufficed for her to conquer Paris, to capture the provinces, and arouse the foreigner, frequently so indifferent to great artistic achievements. The young pupil pursued her courses at the Conservatoire, in spite of Sardou's remonstrances that she would find it fatiguing.
I remember meeting at her house, on one occasion, the Princess Ourousoff, who told me that the Emperor Alexander had said to her, "I wish that every one could see Sardou's play 'Thermidor' and discover what revolution really is"; and that she had answered, "Revolutions are prepared long before they break out."
I do not believe that the English stage has even seen a finer ensemble of acting than that given by Kendal as "Julian Beauclerc," John Clayton as "Henry Beauclerc," and Squire Bancroft as "Count Orloff" when the piece was originally produced at the Hay-market, in the great "three-men" scene in the Second Act of Diplomacy, the famous "Scene des trois hommes" of Sardou's Dora; nothing on the French stage could beat it.
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