The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-05-03
BERNHARD'S MARRIAGE.
Who Damala Is, and Why She
Married Him.

AN'& @MAAAa
A Paris correspondent writes under
date of April z, in regard to the recent
marriage of Sarah Bernhardt:
Sara Bernhardt has espoused NJ. Da-
mRla or Daria, for many reasons; the
first and strongest being that she was
I desperately in love with him. She
wanted to have a right to be Jealous of
his affections. He is terrible flirt, and
took pleasure, when he saw she was
snitten by his manly beauty, in to Z
menting her. II now turns out that
those fainting fits with which she was
seized on the stages of italian theaters
were expedients rcsOrted 20 in order to
prevent the loved one from carrying on
fiirtaiions before her eyes, in the wings,
with Nile. Lima Monte When Dena
Sol tainted Of course she had TO be
borne CH. The piece was thus spoiled.
But an end was put to the billing and
cOoing of Damala and Lima. When
also the manager found out why the
gifted actress swooned, he took meas
ures to prevent a repetition of the annoy
ance which had 50 deeply affected her.
Ii appears that she and Lima tore their
caps about the handsome actor. tser
was not the preferred one. It was during
a scene" in the rs that she first an
nOunced her determination to wed NJ.
Damala, or, as he is known in the tho
atrical circles, Daria. "What right
have you to meddle in his affairs or
mine eitherg" asked Lima. "The best
OF all rights" answered Sara; che is TO
be my husband" You're mad" was
the reply; "dO you think that hand
some fellow like him would bind him
self for life to a pair of castanetlesg Be-
sides, he has a wife and children hidden
away at Marseilles." don't mind that
replied Sara, "I'll buy out her int, ar
in him. As lie has not seen her for
over three years, she'll sell it chelp.'
ooh, with all my heartl Take him, and
joy go with the pair of you" And so
DoHa Sol took him. He bolted an oath
in London in order to obtain a certIfi-
cate Of residence with which to get mar.
ried in haste. Sara's present fortune is
200. 600 francs. This does not com
promise her bijou house in. the Rue dc
Fortuna or the place near Havre.
Another motive for becoming slave
of the ring was TO have a decent status
in London. whittier she goes on the
2Sth. AT least, this was the excu-e she
urged TO her son Maurice, who is now
grown mp and is as sharp a fellow as
there is in the BOurse district. He is in
the office of stock broker His moth.
er who has ever shown him great affec-
tion, summoned him from Paris 10 &C.
nOa 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 Maui
rice Bernhardt arrived, played cold, and
began 10 rave about the luxurious beau.
ty of the Italian women Plump wo-
men were good tempered and gay, and
il was pleasant to look at them. There
was a sOnsy actress in the troupe to
whom, when Lima Monte was busy with
her role, he paid court. Poor Sara was
in despair. When she I'd resolved 10
matrimony she told her low
er how she had been pointed at by the
finger OF scorn in the United States and
preached against. The sermons in
which she was stigmatizcd had been
repeated in the London press, and the
was tiiat If she went back to
England as allie Bernhard she would
be treated as a black sheep. An argu-
ment which had more weight with M.
Bernhardt fis was, that having a hus-
band who was good man of business
and an actor, would release her from
the iaapyesIri who have baltoned upon !
her. A woman could not do without
Barnum, and Il was better that he
should be her husband than a stranger
who wanted merely TO prey npon her.
Who is Damala, OF DFias He In 3
Greek by nali0naliiy,=c semi Hebrew
race- To call him count IA absurd
There are no titles in Greece, excep.
'flicial ones and in the ro,ai family
His diplomatic cSpe ience Was extreme
" short. He vas IN some accidental
manner attached to the Greek consulate s
or few days His true professioul IL
bat Of commercial traveller. His filler
Tas trader in raw silk, aud had
house a. SRA Sara B-rnhard's hus-
and. who Christian name Is not Arls-
hes, but Jacques, represented It at
IIarseilles and Lyons. Il was at the
larseiiles Lyccnm that ne received his.