The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-07
OUR FRENCH LETTER
Especial correspondence of the HERALD
PARIs, September 10, 1888

fARISs september ~, 1883.
The peculiarly of foreign -ministe
Chsllemel-Iacour is, that he can IA
sick, or feel the necessity for shol
leave of absence, at less than q me
ments' notice. Having brought tb
Chinese question 10 the zenith @
bungling. he decamps. But the abb
ambassador OF the celestials remem
bers the ministerial tall talk, and th,
treaty, a la mode Bardo, imposed OF
some successor of the late sovereign
OF AMMAN. France will not send any
expeditionary force to Tonquin to
whip the Chinese the parliament
would vote neither the money no,
the men, and the Chinese know this.
And China will coneede all she il
asked, save her faulty rights over the
Annamites and having France ior
a direct and troublesome neighbor.
The theatrical season may be said
to have commenced with the revival
OF Frou- Frou, q ive-act comedy by
Mes srs Meilhao and Halevy. It is
the most celebrated work of these tn o
famous dynamitists. and serious at
tempt to catch the living manners as
they rose of the last days OF the SEC
ond Empire. Frou-Frem means tb 8
noise caused by the rustling of silk
dress. The plot is this. and it will be
seen to be near relation of Madame
Benoiton: Brigard is q rich and ac-
complished Hbertine, aged 60; be hae
two daughters, Louise and Gilberte,
left to themselves, and 90 they natu-
rally follow their own instincts.
Louise is serious, eensible, and di~
vines life before experiencing it. Gil
berte lie light. laughing, fond of gay
life; a spoiled child, an adorable
doll. with a roll OF lace for Q heart,
and ends by loosing herself and soil.
ing her name. Two neighbors solicis
the hand of Gilberte, Sartorys and
Valreas. The father decides for SaT.
torys, WHO is 8 serious, rejecting
man. and who is loved in secret by
Louise.
The marriage accomplished, the
husband and wife, as is usually the
case in Parts, follow their inclina.
tions, the husband to his affairs, the
wife her pleasures. Gilberte has re-
ceived the pet sobriqust of Frou.frou
from the rustling of her silk dresses.
-Four years are supposed to have
elapsed, baby has been born, and
which Instead of unriting, has rather
separated the parents. Louise who
has sacrificed herself for her sister,
now comes to her aid, to try and res
tore harmony in she Sartorys family.
But after inviting her sister to thus
reside, Gilberts becomes jealous OF
Louise. A terrible scene ensues be-
tween the sisters, AMI ends by Gil
berte's clipping with Valreas, who has
never ceased his attention toward
her. Sartorys follows the fugitives to
Venice, and kills Valreas in duel.
Ultimately Gilberte returns dishon-
ored and dying to her fathers, where
she dies.
The revival OF Frou Frou ia re.
rksble, because the difficult role
has been filed by Sara Bernhardt;
the character was originally created
by Mile. Desclee, but was at first des-
tined for Mile. Antonine, who ought
even now be taken as its best inter-
prefer. Sara Bernhard has several
times appeared as Frou .Frow in her
starring tours, butts is only at present
she has enabled Parisisns to Judge
her. And the verdict is q qualified
one: Sara gives US tragic Frou.
F,ou, what the light. headed empty
hearted Gilberte was not. In the
death scene, Sara makes Frou-Frou's
agony irresistibly fearful. when the
diving Gilberte calls her sister, and
makes her promise to have her buried
in a certain white ball robe Of other
days, with Hounces of small roses, to
make her look pretty and the old
FrowFrou once again. Madame
Bernhardt i, here taulsless; but in the
other scener, she forgets that Frou
Frou is o thoughtiess, frivolous crea-
ture, not demanding to be portrayed
in tragic accounts and gestures. De-
casionally Madame Bernhardt works
heraeli up into such q nervous pas-
sion, out-hsmlets Hamlet. 80 o. to b
perfectly inartioulste. And N.
Marais, who represents Sarto7ys, pre-
sents US with an Othello or an An
tony, rather than q common-sense
mao OF the world, whose domestic
peace has been dishonored and des-
troyed. Sara Bernhardt has given Us
q new Frou-Frou, dut opinion prefers
the old one.
The administrator OF the Union
Generate Bank, have to make up,
collectively AMI individually the total
loss Of 20, 000, 600 francs, and which
falls on old royalist families. The
excitement very great in the Eau.
bourg st. Germaip, and not few
members OF the aristoorscy will be
reduced to beggary. Some OF Mar.
ahal MacMahon's relatives are bit
hard. Two Of the administrators
having given all their property to the
assignee have set out for Manitoba to
occupy farms purchased for them BY
friends. The Due De Broglie's son is
resolved to 20 to New Zssland to re-