The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
A DETHR0NED QUEEN.
sarah Bernhardt's Wonderful can;,a
and Phenomenal Meanness.
Df'Ven Oy Deaf and Blind E,ass;o,
Tor noney-A Life of Cold Cali
eniation-Intercstine
sketch.
Paris Cor. New Orleans Pieavune !

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,ot Dl1 IL ever occur to you that actors ana
actresses ought not to be poor9 WhiIo !, tIa
~ OF their profession they gain enough
70 insure themselves comfort in their old aGr
ouV, lhe the lower classes in England. tbev
prefer TO live on charity in Their, latter davs
u saving up something of their easily
oafned salaries Take Nine. Sarah Bern.
harot, Tor instance. Never has an actress
risen higher in her profession and never he's
one fallen into lower depths of despair and
misery Than she is sure to fall before many
moons nave gone and come unless she nnfs
on the brakes very soon. Was there ever an
oUiler woman with such history as hers
mas been, and which is not vet ended
ilef beginnings were difficult, and
aiready she was tormented by debts.
puG one Gay she scored a success in
Tie "iassant" at the Odeon, success dine
partly TO the tender charm Of her voice ard
partly to suggestive ambiguity Of her
PiaS1iqle' Then she entered the Coincide
Frahcalse, where she soon became fanous
sac was feted and applauded as no other
actress nad been who ever appeared before
the Partisan public
NO doubt her talents are of the highest
order and she is original, seductive and
| graceful III her ever movement, but she had
| Ille good luck 10 make her appearance at a
l'ihe When there was no longer any truly
| great actresses on the French stage ana when
| there were very few left among the public
| who remembecel Rachel and Augustine
Brohan Her name grew and rrew. and
soon 1t filled Paris the provinces and foreign
lands, No one was talked about but
her; she was photographed, painted in
oils, carved in marble, and every one did
thelr best to surround her with an atm0S
| phere OF eccentriCitics. Her toilets We're
| looked upon as enigmas; her slightest gesture
was said to conceala mysterious meaning: heI
hair to render those mad who touched ii
| her flowers to breathe forth r,aisans which
were her only food.
When she received, her salon was crowde
with the noblest names in Europe. The king,
of Christendom bowed down before thi.
stage queen. She went up in q ballooli and
a nation watched her ascent in breathlass in
| terest; she wrote a book for which the pub
fishers commended; she made statues ant
painted pictures, which the admiring publii
declared masterpieces. Ii seemed as if hal
brain must burst under the tremendous pres
sure of her inspiration, that her soul wa
shaken like "a reed by tbe NnirlWinI Of crea
ton.
All at once the Public learned that She ha,
left the Coincide Francois, and WAS eeffins
forth on a victorious falfr over the fac, nf tn
eartb: then came tha uau.sof no. tf.i,,u.,ha.,
PROGRESS, of tha 5iolomatj, Incidents ,vhicI
she was the cause of. Sho w;,s in America
in Russia, in London, in Italy; millions wer
poured into her Ian. to s1rDr;se herself =
we'll as the uuhlir she cot nlarried and tbal
rnrn,rriad she bo,,cbt IA fine tbnot,,os t;,o
came in her yav and hardly entered int
possessiop before she rnlir1nishad tho7
oro;n Now sbo hoe sia,rnd q OF wit,
this manacer now She has hro,o, the an
that hound her to another. everything fila
She touches falls ia Y,ie,.ps. she lives in nm n
novnhora nf laws,i;ts end evacutiops mn,
yybara,a,, she ooas . lone st,ir-, If ,.,.dit.,r
cline IN her shirts and nj last she !. II
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