Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-17
THE PARTISAN. ACTRESS.
Strange and Tortuous Paths She Usually
Treads to Achieve Fame.
Mem Vork UIrlT

NtD fOTN bOTtu-
Mile. Weber, the young girl who took
the first prize for tragedy at the Conserva-
toire last year and who afterwards made
such a great success at the Theatre de
FOdeon in the role of Marie in Francois
COppee's tragedy of ''The JacObites," has
for some months past been incapacitated
by illness from appearing on the stage.
The cause of her indisposition has lately
been revealed, and in some six weeks more
the young actress (she is not yet 49, will
be able to resume the duties of her profeS-
sion. She has become the mother of a son.
Thus ends the romance o%fvirtuous poverty,
of desperate struggles to maintain herself
while studying for the stage-the whole
perfume of innocence and sympathetic en-
deavOr that hung about her name. She has
followed in the path that most of the
Partisan actresses travel, and is now fully
qualified to enter the Coincide Franchise,
of which it is said thatno actress belonging
to its company that respects herself can get
along without a son. They generally
manage to do without the awkward APP
pendage of a husband, but the young heir
to their names and their salaries is seldom
wanting.
Sarah Bernhardt and her Maurice and
Croizette and her Daniel led off the list,
which has been continued by the modest
and ~pure-lOoking Reichemberg, the jolly
CelIne ,MOntalaud, poetic Julia Bartet and
Others. But Mines. Broisat, Baret and
Samara are perfectly respectable married
ladies, though the two last are quite young,
and one very pretty, and Nine. Broisat is
extremely charming. There is, indeed, /
think no more reason for a young girl to
90 wrong upon the French stage than on
that of any ather nationality. There have
been, and there still are, brave pure-sOuled
girls that have passed unframed through
all the temptations and trials of a Partisan
theatrical career. The great comic actress,
Celine ChaumOnt, and the beautiful Marie
Legault, of the Vaudeville, are, for in
stance, examples of perfect morality of life
and prOpriety of demeanor. So, too, is
Mile. Brandes.
The young debutante, i fshe has escaped
the preliminary perils of her career and
achieves anything like a success becomes
straightway an object of interest TO half
the Young society men of the hour. She is
hunted down as warily and as untlringly
as though she were a stag or a partridge.
Very often. too, poor child, as in the case
OF Mile Feyghine and the Duke de Morny,
her own heart sides with the noble wooer
that promises wealth, luxury and Incidence
idstead of toll and privatiOn. 1t is a rec
ognized necessity OF her career that she
should make position for herselt-that
is, find some gentleman who, as Mile
Reichemberg prettily put it, she may con-
slider her best friend. Thereafter one or
two things Occurs-either she leaves the
stage and drifts OF the recognized members
OF the demi-mOdc, or else she continues her
professional career. The latter course is
the most sensible, as she thus holds a far
higher position han if she were 10 wholly
throw aside all the advantages gained by
her talents. Sometimes, if fortunate IN
her choice of a protector, she leads 4 most
brilliant and luxurious life. The carriages
and toilets Of certain of the fair actresses
Of Paris are rs famous rs those of the
]milliOnaireS and duchcSscs. And by reason
Of their professional position and the foot
hold that they maintain i'll the realms of
dramatic art they seldom sink to the level
of the Coral Pearls of the hour. They
form a society apart; they dwell in q bor-
ner-land, so TO speak, between the world OF
fashion and the demi-mOdc.