The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-02-06
WONDERFUL. OSCILLATION.
sara Bernhardt -FaeiIe Prineeps'' in the
Art of KISSING.
oiiye Legan.s Paris Letter.

Olive Logan-s Paris Letter.
What a spectacle we saw last night ON
the stage of the Francaisl "Hernanif
is the chef a. cure of the modern re-
pert0ire of the Francais, and last night,
believe me, Sara Bernhardt and her val /
liant coadjutors were on their mettle. /
During the first four acts La Bernhardt |
has lit1le opportunity TO be more than |
living piece of statuary. What poses!
What abandon! Every attitude grace, |
not a poise of the finger that might not |
satisfy the eye of CanoVa; yet set group |
ings, all Thus for the four suppressed |
acts Sara moves, "A thing Of beauty amid |
repose, the latter broken only by the fire |
of that classic utterance:
You are my lion, superb ana SeneF-
ousl l love you!"
But when the fifth act comes, you
must prepare to have your nerves shak-
en-. Great Heavens! is it possible that
such love as this can be only stage-feign-
ing? What must this actor MOUnet Sui
ly be made Of, ii, when the curtain falls,
he can biandly say, Good evening" and
turn his back on his maddening crea-
ture who has been mauling him, with
painting breast. and liquid eyes, and half
exhausted voice for nearly an hour? 1t
must certainly be said for Sara Bern
hardt that she has discovered new depart
ureS in the art of kissing
| don't believe the man lives whose
| back hair has been so extensively, thor
ouchly and eXhaustively kissed as
| M0unet Sully's has been by Sara Bern
| hardt From the very moment Donna
| Sol finds that the plans of the cOnspira-
tors are likely TO succeed, ard she is not
| going to have Hermann as much as she
| thought she was, Bernhardt begins her
| study of kisses, which certainly includes
all the variations - andante, allegro
! con amore, il penscrOSo, crescendo, and
never minucndo, until they are
both dead, and presumably, can never
| get kissed any more. AS q kisser, Sara
IS too numerous 10 mention. She does
not stand on the order of her kissing,
but kisses at once. Conventional kiss
ing spots are agreeable, but not indiS-
pensable, ii not handy. For instance,
when Hermann is using his lips to abuse
his enemies with, and therefore Is obhg-
ed to borrow them awhile from Sara, she
employs the time putting kisses all over
him like the buttons on tie jacket OF the
page in Cousin Joe" She stands on
, her tip-toes-for Mounet Sully IS over
six feet tall-to kiss the rear central lock
on the apex of his Uranium; leaving her
J hands clasped up there, she goes on eX-
cursions with scarlet lips in tie inter
stices of his neck frill. When hampercd
by the conventionalities OF unphiiosoph
ic wearing apparel against whose absurd
) trammels Carlyle's sage protested so val
. iantIv oman being, according to the leu
felsdrock theory, naked and not Z
clothed anima), she finds no more man
to kiss, she SIMPLY falls to kissing
| his wardrobe. She puts her loving
head upon his arm and kisses all the
velvet and satin thcreabouts. Sht
winds herself around his waist and kiss
/ es every puff on the front of his doubiet
And when at last he-kiss ASSAULTED
with the peTsistency of a besieger batter
l ing fortress, sheds on her his nohl'
e smile, and lifting his kissing slenderlin:
+ right off her feet, clasps her with hi
long, strong arms to his broad breast
and goes into the kissing business him
self, there is positively IA sigh of relic
I and satisfaction among the audience
She las got her kiss at last, poor girl
we hope She enjoys it! We can see ia
i 1.-the, snake-like fame shiver under i
and hear the golden voice, broken int
Syllables by kissing, murmur especlai!.
"Oh, my Hermann He has got her u
t clear off the floor, as a mother holds
! hsbe one arm around her shoulders, til
s other perdu in the folds
her trailing train OF pin
silk crepe; lie is simply nursin
Ii her. A group in .stauary? Aye, SO hcl
t me, Michael Angelo! Now, by the Swa
# of Leda, by the Cupid love of Psyche, b
- every kissing deity in the pagan mytho
ogy, if it Is only a stage kiss Noun
C. S1liy gives hcr-a kiss Of descending
10 like the drinking Of the poison and Il
stabbing of the poniards-a make b'
lieve kiss, taken to avoid the swallowin
rs of carmine on the scarlet lips; If 1t b
then am willing to confess that Noun
Sully is more accomplished as an aru
OF than impetuous rs man.
- And when the future Queen of spa
was leaning ON the scarlet cushion
front of her, in the Imperial box, to "
b. ness this fascinating spectacle, less6
Ii to her in the divine art of kissing, po
:, Eugene was resting at the residence
y the Duke de Mouchy, in the Avenue
IN Courcelles, after fatiguins voyage fro
an England.