Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-25
who DamaSA -, aad why She Married


Paris Correspondent Y. Tribune.
Sarah Bernhardt has espoused II. Damala, or
baria, for many reasons the first and strongest
being that she was desperately in love with him.
She wanted to have right to be Jealous OF his
affections. He is terrible flirt, and took pleas
ure, when he saw that she was smitten by his
manly beauty, in tormenting her. 1t now turns
out that those fainting fits with which she was
seized On the stages OF italian theaters were
expedents resorted to In order to prevent the
loved one from carrying on f1irtations before her
eyes, In the wings with Mile. Lima Munte
When D0na Sol tainted. of course she had to be
borne out. The piece was thus spoiled
But an end was put to the amorOus billing
and ccOing of DaInala and Lima. When
also the manager found out why the
gifted actress swoOned ne took measures to
prevent repetition of the annoyance which had
SD deeply affected her. 1t appears that she and
Lima tore their caps about the handsome actor
Sarah was not the preferred one. 1t was during
scene" in the wings that she first announced
her determination to wed NJ. Damala or as he is
known IN theatrical circles, Daria. What right
have yon to meddie in his affairs, or mine
eitheTi" asked Lima. 1.-The best OF all rights. -
answered Sarah; - he is to be my husband :"
You're mad" was the reply; edo you think
that a handsome fellow like him would bind him
Self FOR life 10 pair of castanettes! Besides he
hasa wife aad children hidden away at Marseilles "
:" don't mind that, replied Sarah, IN buy out
her interest in him. As he has not seen her for
over three years. she'll sell it cheap" "Oh
with all my heart! Take him, and Joy 90 with
the pair of YOU
And so D0na Sol took him. He bolted an oath
In London in order to obtain certificate of resi-
dence with which to act married In haste
Sarah's present fortune is 200 600 francs. This
does not comprise her bijou house i'm the Rue dc
Fortuny, or the place near Havre.
Another motive for becoming slave Of the
ring was to have q decent status i'm London,
whittier she goes on the 28th. At least. this was
the excuse she urged to her son Maurice who is
now grown up and is as sharp a fellow as there
is in the Beurse district He Is in the Office of a
stock broker His mother, who has ever shown
him great affection summoned him from Paris
to Genoa when she felt how madly in love she
had become and was afraid of being drawn by
her passion into matrimOny She thought the
sight of the youth would steady her, Damala,
when Maurice Bernhardt arrived, played cold,
and began to rave about the luxurious beauty
of the Italian women. Plump women were
good tempered and gay, and 1t was pleasant to
look at them. There was q sOnsy
actress IN the troupe to whom,
when Lima Munte was busy with her role, he
palG court Poor Sarah was in despair. When
she had resolved to perpetrate 1natrimony she
told her lover how she had been pointed at by
the flng er of scorn In the United States, and
stigmatiZed had been repeated in the London
press, and the probability was that If she went
back to England as Mile. Bernhard she would
be treated as black sheep. An argument
which had more weight with H. Bernhardt fls
was, that having husband who was q good
man of business and an actor, would release her
from the frsFresd1Tj. who have battened upon
her. woman could not do without q Barnum
and it was better that he should be her husband
than q stranger VINO wanted merely to prey
upon her.
Who is Danlala or Daria? He IL Greek by
nationality. TO call him q count Is absurd
There are no titles in Greece except official ones
and in the royal family. His diplomatic expe-
rience was extremely short. He was in some
accidental manner attached to the Greek con-
suate for a few days. His true profession is
that of commercial traveller
Damala is described to me as q very good
natured, handsome fellow, fond of poetry,
music and the fair sex. My informant tells me
that ne must have had swarm of creditors
at his heels when he and his bride were
about to embark In the Segoyia for
Barcelona. He is fond of gambling, but
although he was mixed up with Lambri Pacha
two or three years ago. is not q blackeg. II
his first wife Is dead he is the master of Sarah's
fortune. she having married him without q con-
tract The acquaintance began last October
when he called on her and asked her to get NJ
Duquesnel to engage him in a company of which
she was to be the bright, particular star. Selec-
biObS iTOfH HeTnalli ana 'Pheure" were 70
cited to her She did not like his style, but adj
mired and liked the man. Duquesnel engaged
him as a supplementary actor, and promised
that Ii Angelo, who was to play with Sarah
broke down. Daria should replace him. AprOpos
OF Goncourt's work, LA Faustin,"I explained
to you how much eanbosrgsoises the modern &C
tress has become. 1t is now fashion among
them to get married Sarah probably would
have done better il she had espOused a mere
business man, who would have been at once a
house steward and Barnum.
Partisan friends Of Sarah imagine that her
hasty marriage will not bind her here As she is
of Dutch nationality and her husband of Greek,
the ira and fast regulations Of the Code Napo-
leon do not apply to their union believe that
the marriage being legal in England will be
valid all the world over-if indeed there is no
first wife, l read to-day in the London corre-
spOndence of a French paper that the bride
caused the news of the happy event to be COM
municated to the Prince of Wales. and that His
Royal Highness exclaimed, by Jove! Sarah
getting married! she must be mad!" OF course
do not vOuch for the veracity Of the corre-
spOndent.