Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-06
SARAH AND DANALA.
Sarah Bernhardt's Matrimonial Ven.
ture Excites the tsos,ips OF Paris
They Indulge in Stories About MIDI
night Rows in the Avenue de vii.
liers-shcr Hatred of American
Women
Paris Correspondence New York Journal.

Paris Cores 0ndence New York Journal.
Scarcely has Sarah Bernhardt been married
than the air of Paris is already thick with rumors
of trouble and matrimonial strife. Damala to
use common parlance, was "gay boy before
he met Sarah He was generally understood to
worship at the shrine Of almost every pretty ac-
tress who came along. He was never suspected
of being marrying man. Now at supper at the
Cafe Anglais. now at dinner at Voisin's. now
driving to the Cascade. always in company with
one or the other of the piquant beauties of the
Paris stage, his life excluded all thoughts
of matrimony. His Bohemian comrades
were aghast when they heard that he had
married Sarah. One after the other shook
his head and said: THAT will never do Sooner
or later they will come to grief And sure
enough the story now goes that there has been
violent row in the Avenued de Vlliers, and that
separation, if not a divorce. may be the con-
sequence. The cause of the difficulty is said to
be Miss s, a very pretty blonde, who made
quite success last spring at one of the small
theaters Damala, so the story goes, absented
himself one evening from the loving side of his
spouse, to accompany MademOiselle S. to a Jolly
ball in the Quarter Latin. The fun which pre-
vailed there was high and furious. good deal
of champagne was drunk, and it is doubtful
whether many OfthOse present returned to their
homes in a sober condition. Damala it appears
had sufficient sense to accompany Miss S. to her
door and return to Sarah's studio at about three
o'clock in the morning. A servant who wit
messed the scene and must have related it to a
reporter, described the greeting which
awaited the late conner as an unpleasant one
Sarah. when she is mad. can swear likeatrooper
and this time she swOre enough for q whole
regiment of dragons. Words ran high, and
Damala put his hat On and walked out in dis
gust This is the story as it comes to me. How
true 1T Is l cannot say. One thing is certain
Sarah Bernhardts temper Is one which must
make matrimonial felicity with ANYBODY ex-
tremeiy doubtful. Besides. she is intensely
Jealous. She feels that she is much older than
he, that he married her probably very little for
love and very much for her money and that the
whole world has laughed at him for the mesal-
lance into which he has entered All that
gnaws at her conscience, and no wonder that it
intensfles her jealousy. II the row has not
yet been made up have no doubt it will be
very soon. for Damala is too shrewd fellow to
deprive himself OF the advantages which his
fortunate match gives him. Sarah Bernhardt
Is getting to be very rich woman. Her pro-
fessiOnal earnings average probably $500. 600 q
year, and Of this she hardly spends a quarter.
TO be sure, she has poor relations all the world
over but she gives very little to these evidently
acting on the principle that charity begins at
home She has great desire to return to
America. The idea Of another American tour.
with Its attendant peeuniary results, has the
greatest fascination for her; but she realizes
that she is beginning to be passe and her
social experience in America, where she
was SO cOldly snubbed by so-called
good society. has given her q great
distaste for social intercourse with Americans.
She no longer receives with open arms every
American man or woman who comes to her
house to see her coffin, her life-size skeleton
looking at himself In the glass, and various
deaths heads delightfully."- scattered about the
room She is determined to have her revenge
upon American ladies for not calling upon her
when she was in their country, and when. in
spite OF all her Efforts. she could not succeed in
getting any respectable woman to call on her
Tor love or money, and SO the order has gone
| forth to her valet that when an American calls
her doors are to be closed. and still more If the
visitor be she. This is small piece of spite.
but the American people can well stand It, It
| Is their dollars that have made Sarah what she
Is now, and without which probably even Da-
mala would not have been anxious to have mar
\ ried her