The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-22

there is little doubt but that If a per-
formance of Lady Audley's Secret
could be arranged, 1t would meet with
warm support from the public. Mrs.
Bowers has accepted an invitation TO
see the Two Orphans Tuesday evening.
Thu announcement made in the
Partisan double leads of the Herald that
Sara Bernhardt is to play Rome to
Mrs. James Trcwn Foster's Juliet in
Paris next yaer, smalls something OF
the Abbey syndicate.
When the syndicate manager takes
hold of an artistic she begins to blossom
Immediately by means OF the fecundat-
ing cable in the foreign gardens of he
Herald. This is one of those cases in
which distance lends, at a small per
cent, all the nece .ary capital of en-
chantment.
The H3raM says fourishingly of this
prospective event. that genius and
beauty are yoked at last
One reflects pensively at this that
genius and beauty always were yoked,
so far as the Herald was concerned, in
the person and acting of Mrs. Potter,
and there is something OF pathos in the
electric announcement that Mrs. Potter
has found it necessary to yoke herself
to any other talent than her own.
Il hear" says Sara in the Herald,
THAT she (Mrs z Jtter) is SO coed il
tragedy, too"
Now, where do you suppose Sarah
heard this? 1t couldn't have been in
London. 1t couldn't have come from
our Grand Opera House, where Mrs.
Potter played Juliet surreptItiously and
did not invite the press. She must
have beard it at the Paris Office OF the
NV York Herald from Maurice Grsu
or Mr.. Abbey himself. Of one thing
we NAV be assured: She never heard il
till Mr.. Abbey took charge of Mrs.
Potter AID provided the joke.
Mrs. Potter is my ideal Juliet"
prattles that delicious FrenchWoman.
''She has such q girlish face and figure,
and will be exactly what 1 always
looked for in Juliet"
This let's in a food oil light upon
Bernhardts lofty soul-strainings. ano
we ought to feel grateful for the glimpse
which the Herald affords US of her ideal
Juliet-"a glrlish face and figure"
1t is only genius like Bernhardt who
can with one sentence satisfy US with
all the requirements for an ideal Juliet
"a eirlish face and igurel
Some of Us not SO intuitive and ap
pre- psive of the divine necessities
would have been specifically struck
perhaps, with Mrs. Potter's girlish ex
oerience and mentality, and swooned
under her nursery inspiration.
Not so Bernhardt. The face and figure
are enough for her.
By one of those inscrutable processes
of the female mind that no man can find
out, she recognized the girlishnes of face
an figure, and Immediately heard that
she must be good in tragedy.
Arcane logic! Pal Liam deduction
Superb conviction!
1t is curious, if Bernhart was always
looking for this face, that she never
found it till Mr.. A bbey engaged 1t and
Marcus Meyer sent her photograph.
All the more remarkable, perhaps,
when you consid that it is The normal
type OF American face-dainty, piquant
mobile. conventional, pretty; but |
never commanding, never wrought |
upon BY lines of character or shadows |
IF suff ring. A tulip ia q, dewy |
enough with the boudoir sweetness, but |
1nlit with the fires of passion that are
.anned alone to consuming flames either
n art or in life by the agonies OF exist
snce or the winds of imagination.
II hear that she is good in tragedy
means when separated from the Ben
nett Mackey caoie, hat Bernard never
"a % Mrz poffar do tfa nof5op ScPra