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"Read!" he exclaimed, with the most pathetic tones of Talma in tragedy "read my ruin!" I read, and found that it was a letter from his domineering little Jewess, commanding him to throw up his commission on the spot, and especially not to go to France, on penalty of her eternal displeasure. My looks asked an explanation.
Talma, the great French actor, recommends long spells of rest, and says that "perpetual indulgence in the excitement of impersonation dulls the sympathy and impairs the imaginative faculty of the comedian." This is very useful in my defense, yet I could find many examples which prove the contrary.
Was it possible that these people were coming to a slave auction? Surely not. And yet here they were on the pavement at his very side. She wore a long Talma of crimson cashmere, and her face was in that most seductive of frames, a scoop bonnet of dark green velvet, For a fleeting second her eyes met his, and then her lashes fell.
The two men were drawn to each other; Irving greatly admired the "noble-hearted, manly, spirited little fellow, with a mind as generous as his fancy is brilliant." Talma was playing Hamlet to overflowing houses, which hung on his actions with breathless attention, or broke into ungovernable applause; ladies were carried fainting from the boxes.
The school was kept by ladies of the name of Guinani, sisters to the wife of Charles Young the Julia so early lost, so long loved and lamented by him. It was while we were still living in Covent Garden Chambers that Talma, the great French actor, came to London. He knew both my uncle and my father, and was highly esteemed and greatly admired by both of them.
Characters of Princesses. Mesdames FLEURY, TALMA, BOURGOIN, and VOLNAIS. Mademoiselle FLEURY. She has no longer youth nor beauty, and her talents as an actress are much on a par with her personal attractions. She recites with judgment, but almost always with languor, and betrays a want of warmth. Besides, her powers have declined.
He is, at all times, so fully impressed with the feelings, which, under such circumstances, must have been really felt, that one is uniformly struck with the truth and propriety of every thing he does; and of course, in soliloquies, which must be perfect, when the actor appears to be seriously and deeply interested in the subjects on which he is meditating, Talma invariably succeeds.
A slow delivery is only effective when a thought is obviously being born, for which the audience is kept intently waiting. But the most remarkable thing in the article is the following quotation from Talma, the actor: "We were rhetoricians and not characters. What scores of academical discourses on the theatre, how few simple words!
"What is it, Esperance?" "Nothing, nothing." "Was that not Talma, down there, and Mlle. Clairon and Mlle. Mars, and Rachel, that magnificent, expressive masque there ... look?" Mounet-Sully came in. Esperance still seemed in a dream. "Your pardon, master, the atmosphere of glory that one breathes here has intoxicated me a little."
Charmed by the talent of the French comedians, especially that of Talma, the Emperor Alexander sent very handsome presents to her as well as all her companions; he sent compliments to the actresses, and to the director, M. Dazincourt, whom he did not forget in his distribution of gifts.
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