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Names famous wherever pleasure is understood gave to their variegated posters a pleasant air of distinguished familiarity names of theatres such as "Variétés," "Vaudeville," "Châtelet," "Théâtre Français," "Folies-Bergère," and names of persons such as "Sarah Bernhardt," "Huegenet," "Le Bargy," "Litvinne," "Lavallière."
'Member what Duse said as I was the greatest artist, an 'member how Sarah Bernhardt sent me roses in Frisco an' says, 'To a fellow artist'? Yes, suh, they can't do mo' than walk out on me. An' ah's been walked out on befo'. All right, professor. Tha's it. Now I'll stick my hand inside the door and wiggle mah fingers kind o' slow like. Jes' like that. An' I'll come on slow.
She said her fable of the 'Two Pigeons' very well. She must be admitted." Thus Sarah Bernhardt, for it was she, entered the Conservatoire. She was a Jewess of French and Dutch parentage, and was born at Paris in 1844. Her father, after having her baptized, had placed her in a convent; but she had already secretly determined to become an actress.
I find it hard to tell right from wrong, and I find myself beset with tangled wires. O God, I feel that I am ignorant, and fall into many devices. These are strange paths wherein Thou hast set my feet, but I feel that through Thy help, and through great anguish, I am learning!" Mme. Bernhardt and M. Coquelin were playing "L'Aiglon."
"I understand why Sarah Bernhardt is so fond of curtains," she said. "They give an air of drama to existence.... There is nothing more heroic than curtains."
Never before had it been brought home to me what dramatic art might be, or the power of the French Alexandrine. And never did I come so near quarreling with "Uncle Matt" as when, on our return, after having heard my say about the genius of Sarah Bernhardt, he patted my hand indulgently with the remark, "But, my dear child, you see, you never saw Rachel!"
She thought of the way Sarah Bernhardt would act the part of one of those women if her lover had run away from her outstretched arms, and such a toilet, only it was not on record that the lover of any one of them had ever run away.
She couldn't keep up a make-believe interest in his welfare, the way she had done; if she could do that well, like Hank Brown, he would have to hand it to her for being a lot cleverer than he had given her credit for being. "If she's been faking the whole thing, she ought to go on the stage," he muttered tritely. "She'd make Sarah Bernhardt look like a small-time extra. Yes, sir, all of that.
Tuesday was the fashionable night and the Salle was almost as interesting as the stage, particularly if it happened to be a premiere, and all the critics and journalists were there. Sarah Bernhardt and Croizette were both playing those first years. They were great rivals and it was interesting to see them in the same play, both such fine talents yet so totally different.
When Bernhardt appeared, the quiet little man fully earned the often indiscriminately applied title of "crazy Frenchman."
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