Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-07-11

The grand stairway opens on the lett from
this entrance hall A stack of apparel partly
blocks the way. You see robes and shO 5
AMI fans, etc, mixeI together in utter dis
order This is a portion of the actress ward
robe waiting to be packed in the big black
trunks, that maid servants are bending over
in the little room across the hall. Probably
some OF thee wrinkled garments will, in II
few months more, delight tn" eyes of Amer
can audiences Pushing by them and
mounting this palacc-lks staircase, | reach
the drawing rooms OF the celebrated artist
The walls are painted in white, relieved by
srips of gold moulding Tn, paint and the
chairs and sofas look faded and usel You
see that this is a furnished house. The
arrIy OF hungry creditor, so stripped her
own hotel that she had scarcely anything
efC; so there nothing for her to do
br.t to take furnished house.
A few pictures hang on the walls, AMI
some nicknacks stand on the tables-all
that r. mains Of a fine collection OF Canvass
md obi of art that pas ed under the auc-
:iunrers hammer ut tn Hotel Drouot a year
ago last January Among the other things
knocked down to the highest bidder on thai
occasion was tn well known picture, "The
Outlg plTl anu DtuJu. pdllbeNl bl lLe
gedenne | saw 1t almost daily for month
af;erward in the window Of picture dealer
near the grand boulevards One day no
ticed that it had disappeared, carried of
perhaps, to Brazil or the great west, where,
perhaps. the grand actress may soon fea>.
her ewes one, more on this lost child Of he
brush Two busts by the same hand-for
Sarah Bernhardt is q sculptor, too-are tn,
4. l. Il.
the artis' ic bent Of the hostess
The most noticeable objects in Sarah Bern
hardt's rooms, as l saw them when | called
we're immense baskets and bouquets of faded
flowers. the floral offerings OF the first night
Of Ham ct, which occurred this past win
ter. Sarah Bernhardt appeared as Ophelia
and was very much critici, ed So severe in
fact were some of the critics that the actress
got on one of her high hOrse' and answered
thsm through the ne ~spapers But the pub
lie took the same view as the critics, and
the piece soon disappeared from the stage Of
the Porte S. Marin Perhaps the actres,
clings TO these w.thered gifts in order still to
protest against the opinions Of her judges o.
the press and the public. and to show thai
she at least i, proud TO remind her visitors
Of this disastrous adventure into the realms
of Shakespeare.
1t has often been sal that Sarah Bern
harit keeps her coffin in one Of the closets OF
her house, and that she sometimes takes a
nap in this narrow bed in order to accus tom
herself 10 tn, terms of death am assured
by the intimate friends Of the actress that
as have always believed, there is no truth
in this weird story. However this may be,
another emblem OF the heartlesS Reaper does
IL h. toh afS
human skull there stares ypu in the face
And tn most interes ing thing in connec
ton with this Uranium. a .utticient excuse
for leaving ii III full view, is stanzl writ
ten on the crown by Victor Hugo. |. may
be trausl tied as follows:
skeleton what hast thou done with the souI3
Lamp what hast thou drn' Nth tn flame;
Dcsrrtr cage. what hast thou done with thy beau
tifuI bird that u>eI u sing
Volcano. what hast thou done 18th the ava'
What hast tho don. To Ihy master: Made him thy
slave, V. II.
The last lins of course refers to the poe
and the actress S rnh Bernhardt inter
pre- ell many IF Vic'or Hugos tragedies at tn,
Theatre Fr.ncai, before falling out with Il,
manager If that famous state pay house an
resigning from the troupe Hence the poet
calls himself lie master" And she did in
Iced treat him more than once as if he were
her slave, for Sarah Bernhardt used TO rule
in the green room Of the HcuSe Of Moli6re,
and Victor Hugo, like less noted dramati,ts.
often had TO 81 bmit to her whims and ca
prices
Mme Bsrnhardt talks and moves in her
drawing room just as ,he does on the stage.
The same rapid hut c ear enunciation, the
same graceful cat like motion. you fee that
you are in the theatre with the great actress
Lefore the lOotlIghtS Sarah Bernhardt is
her ma ural on the stag or STACEY at
home, probably the latter. She is us affable
in her easy chair as she is irascibls at a
rehearsal She always had a kind word for
the many visitors who used to crowd her
parlors on Thursday During the last weeks
before her departure she had so much to do
sh.' "h- had tn givs uu har regular weekly