Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11

"Those consisting of young people,
the actress replied, her whole face beaming
with pleasure as she dilated upon subject
evidently very near her heart. You
ought to have been at my performances IN
Paris when the students from the colleges
happened to be there in great numbers.
Their ardor and enthusiasm was something
quite wonderful, and it always had an
electrical effect upon me, for appreciation,
you know, is to artists what water Is to
the flowers"
DO you take any nourishment between
the scenes, madame: ?"
"None, except big Jumps of fine 'norcedu1
de gtace, which cool my mouth, fevered
with the excitement of the play"
How do you feel after scene like
that, for instance, OF the death OF Adrienne
Lecouvreur? Do you easily recover from
the painful illusion, madame 2"
The illusion? All with me it is re-
atty at the time l am always i'll after
that death scene, and generally have TO be
assisted from the stage. In playing | lose
my identity utterly, and for the time being
| am no longer Sara am only the bapless
woman ] represent. My tears are NOT sim
ulated-they are real, burning, hot tears
that scald my cheeks p And she folded
her hands and lifted them up to me with
an expression OF intense earnestness which
was most appealing In its effect. 1t was
almost as fine piece OF dramatic represen-
tation as | had ever seen her enact on the
stage But as | looked at that delicate,
thin woman l could but marvel how she
could possibly retain sufficient health and
strength for her intense labor while passing
through such successive shocks to her en-
tire nervous system.
GLOW can you keep your health in such
tremendous excitement ?" asked.
81 do not keep it" she replied with a
smile, and laying her hands with an air OF
cheerful resignation across her breast.
I'm consumptive (poitrinairel. / spit
blood, and, being of a very nervous tenn
permanent, the slightest thing irritates me. y
Does that not somewhat affect your
acting? Can you act equally well when
you come upon the stage in an irritated
frame of mind, madame2"
81 may truthfully say that never was
there naturally happier disposition than
mine. / am never what you might call
III bad temper (mauvaise humeurl, never.
But, not to become irritated, | must not
read anything disagreeable about me. l
am not speaking of unfavorable criticisms.
but of the thousand and one falsehoods
which the French press have scattered
about me. Keep this one source of irrita-
ton away from me, and | am the happiest
and best.natured woman possible, though
l say it myself.
"Why had you your photograph taken,
madame, lying in your coffin 2"
After my death l shall be ugly, shall
not?'' she responded with pouting, CO.
quetish smile.
81 think not, !" was my decisive reply.
"Well, l know they would take my
photographs after my death, and they
would pain my friends. thought it bet
ter, therefore, to have them taken while
was still living and my face was pleasing
to them-that is all %
This with some other utterances of less
interest, closed the interview, but / may
add that it is Sara's fondest dream to mas.
ter English sufficiently this summer to be
able to present Ophelia in the great scene
in :" Hamlet" at Booths Theater, in ou1
own language.