Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-29
PARIS ACTRESSES.
How They Sit for Their Photographs
and Strive TO Conceal their Age.
Something About CeIinc NOntaIand,
Juiiic. Blanche Piers0s, sarah
F:crn:fart!f. all others.
A SprighsIy IlOydea Of Forty.

A SprighsIy I1oydea Of Forty.
PARIS. June 3O-ISpecial. When Paris
makes her annual sprin.. toilet for the expected
incursion of Americans it is somewhat amusing
to chronic American Parisians 10 see how she
does it, There is little variety in her c0stuming
from year TO year. Every year she apparels her
self much in the same taste. with difference of
detail and not Of ensemble. as fashions of bon
nets and gowns change, although the facts of
bOnncts AMI gowns remain im.nutabe. One
fixed idea of the Paris mind is that those
bal barian Americans over there on their lonely
continent beyond that bowling sea nave al abb
sOrbn9 interest iu-freEcI actresses Accord
ing To the Partisan mind. Americans live move
ana have their being in consuming desire to
know how Thee winks her petiteS ,Rec{sancitis,
how Judic mods her eiOqIent!y -aaughty head
how Ceilnc NOnta.and fiiSas and froiics at her
age. how the whole naughty naughty but so
nice host Of cantatrice@, danseuses and artistes
smile and bevitch the world. According to the
Paris mind, Americans may buy hroaZes aud
marble. stunning toilets aid wonderful pictures
out they sure never to pass awiEd0w wherein
are displayed portraits of actresses without
stopping to gaze and glOat: probably to enter
the shop. Thus every spring the stale old pho
togrdphs which have displayed their passe
Charms OF leg and bust of freScOed eyelids and
STACEY grin since the spring before disappear as
II before a beSom from their accustomed places
The world of b0uievardiers and iianeurs that
have known them well during summer and
winter know them no more forever In their
stead all the world a strange. new host
resembling the departed one in general. salient
features. but looking as if galvanized by some
mysterious power into newer if not fTesher
grns. into differently seductive attitudes and
glanceS into different. but not less lavish lines
OF busts and limbs
PARIS ACTRESSES
are newly photographed in the spring as regu-
larly as the pensions de defaoiSees dress i'm white
and make their first communions. only with
this dfference-that the latter is presumably
for God and the former for Americans, To those
to WHOM the show Is old and grim. this annual
renewing of faded charms is curious for a rea-
son unsupported by those to whom it is new. 1t
Is curious because OF the singular power these
many of them aCed-womcn have for eyadinc
every mark of age in their photographs although
some Of them are grandmOthers. and several
smile and @rimace side by side with the smiles
and erImaccs of their own not too girliSh
daughters. relationship hidden like gray
hairs, however. This is a faculty-gift call
n-not possessed by our American actresses.
Rose Eytinge is Il grandmother. and however
she may conceal 1t on the stage, her
photographs look every inch grandmotherly
Geneyieyc Wards not grandmother believe
cut her photographs cry aloud that youth is not
tine cause. Olive Logan is Il grandmother and her
looks 90 not deny it, One sees far more middle
= =
tOc-raphS. and since the memory of man Fam
chOn Mitchell has seemed like Parisian DeiaZet
who played Juvenile parts until 80 and although
Maggie Mitchell looks 10. anybody can see that
she is nearer 60. With Paris actresses how
different Celne Monta!and one of jim Fisk's
bright particular stars. if not a grandmOther
might nave been one years ago. yet her. this
springs photograph shows her woman of p
without wrinkle or line, even without that in
flexible shadow OF age which the clevprest pho
tOgrapher can not stipple away. TWENTY-FIVE
years ago she was protected by a Russian
prince, to whom she gave two children.
In the course of time the Russian noble
chose TO give mademolselle her congo but to
retain her children. MaGemOisele made the
theatrical world ring with cries for her offspring
but with only taTdy success. for the prince car
fled them OIL. About ten years ago. however, a
debutante was generally known to be Cene
Montalands daughter although to look at
Celines photograph of this spring one would
declare that it must be of the daughter and not
mother. Four or five years ago this actress
experienced the aftiiction which breaks the
hearts OF so many French actresses and is
dreaded %S tAeM a4l-.-sfle became very fat. Then
all Paris shook its sides with laughter at the
suit brought against the actress by her doctor
for services unpaid and her defence that
although she had taken draughts and potiOns
enough to Kill an OK. and had worn herself out
with fiercest gymnastics she was not shade
more ethereal than when the Guacks took her
In hand
ie another Ofthese clever women-cleyer enough
TO outwit time. She is particularly distin-
guished for her elaborate and costly dressing;
she is AZ and looks p. at least ON the stage and
In the shop windows. She is not very pretty
dim sort of blonde with commonplace features
and simpering expression; but she lives In an
elegant apartment surrounded by costly objects
OF art and fantasy. in such luxury and splendor
o. could not be paid for by most laborious life
NJ draIt rio
genius and does not work hard She paints
still-lifes for the salon. drives in the Bots. and
devOtes herself to keeping age at bay with
triumphant success so far. She is not
lat. but julio Is so fat that. remembering her
forty years. one is more puzzled than ever to
Imagine how it is that these hard worldly women
never suggest fat and forty" even when they
are forty and fat. Judic has made a large for
tune with her petit genre. which is neither genius
nor art, but a gift for making faces and for ex-
pressing volumes in mods and winks and is about
to build magnificent hotel in a fashionable
quarter NJ Julio appears as party in this
business transaction. although ever otherwise
Invisible Nine. Judic has several children and
Is said TO be devoted TO Them although her yuI-
gar lace shows no comprehension of the high
duties OF maternity. She has coarse features
dry-iooking. rolletl-Over lips. heavy eyeds. and
yo!umnOus cheeks. vet she somehow manages
10 iook hoydenish. gay young thing. and to
bhnd the world To the fact that her figure is
that OF pillow beited in the middle
oroisettes photographs are not renewed this
spring Perhaps her protector forbids it-he
is jealous ana exigeant, they say: perhaps she is
too Fat TO be longer q desirable addition to the
Theatrical gallery All her beauty is gone save
. that OF her bright eyes. swallowed up iipulted
IN waste OF flesh. and Of all the stagery throng
she looks the most aged and usee although not
YET 81 She has two children, whose blood is
said TO be half royal. although each of differ
ent strain. ana she lives in luxury quite retired
Hoin the world with her present companion
IrIn r.l and
cidedly Hebraic
SARAH RERNHARDT
mas new photographs this season, and, oh. mar
vel. no: enyeloped TO the chin in misty laces or
m'isiin She Is taken decottete the first photo
graph have ever seen Of her not swathed to
the CHM. and thus. whether by accident or
malice, proves all in the lie who have ever said
tnat she was-q-uit-e-as flat as a board The
record OF her age as given by herself at the con-
sersalore SHOWS her to be 80 years, but her last
photograph shows her to be "a even althouob
ner son Maurice Is old enough to be serving his