The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-11
VARIOUS Stage DRINKS.
The Fayorite Beverages Drank 10y the
Famous Actresses of the Period.
MINING Jonrnal1


Nine. PATHS favorite tipple during the
performance OF opera is brandy and sod a,
and for the information of other singers
who may imagine that it is beneficial she
permits all the gas TO get out of the soda
before taking the beverage. Her theory
is that it Strengthens the voice. At her
meals she drinks wine-glass or two of
the finest Chateau LATTE, which she
brings over with her on every trip she
makes to America, stores it at the Wind
SCR hotel and has it sent to her on her
travels as she needs 1t.
Bernhardt, before n performance, Is rs
eccentric in her drink as in everything
else. But ON first nights, and very often
when she feels under the weather, she
takes glass of absinthe, slightly favored
with cayenne pepper. This naturally
gives her those glorious moments OF rare
rage which astonish her beholders,s Ii
they would try drink OF this mixture
they would thoroughly realize where
Mime. Bernhard gets her inspiration, for
il is simply maddening.
Fanny Davenport used to be fond of
liquors, but she was very properly advised
that this was one of the causes OF her
rapidly increasing stoutness, and she alb
jured The use of them altogether. AT
present she drinks claret, and after the
show Il glass or two of good Burgundy,
which she found beneficial at the time
when the strict regimen she had undergone
threatened to ruin her constitution. In
deed, at one period, when she got down
from 30 10 100 pounds, it was seriously
feared that she was going into consump-
ton, and it was Burgundy that built her
up again.
Ellen Terry takes claret and Burgundy
occasionally aud sometimes clarp1ou,,a
But her fayorite tipple, and ore that
doesn't seem TO make her any latter is the
old English "'arf and 'arf," composed OF
stout and London ale. She takes it under
medical advice, too, as being strengthen
ing, and it undoubtedly is. Lillian Rus
sell gained this habit in England, and it
was mainly responsible for the stoutncss
that threatened at one time to add an APP
pearance of ten years TO her figure She
stopped it suddenly, and has been dimin-
ishing ever since.
1t is malt liquid that is the trouble with
the gorgeous Pauline Halls shape. She is
German from birth and cannot resist lager
beer, though she has been obliged time
and time again TO give it up, and makes
VOWS that she never keeps. She prefers
a good tumbler OF foaming, cold beer TO
all the champagne that can be produced
by the vineyards of France.
Maggie Mitchell hardly touches any,
thing. Occasionally with her meals she
takes glass Of beer or claret, never touch
ing spirits in any FORM Lotta's only
drink, which she only takes during her
performances, is sherry flip, which is
made up OF an egg, sherry and sugar, and
is an exceedingly palatable beverage,
Mrs. Langtry drinks elaret OF the best
quality she can get but only at her meals
She does not touch champagne at any
time, for she believes that the saccharine
matter it contains would put too much fat
on her bones. She is an exceedingly care
full and wise woman, knowing as well as
anybody else that her beauty is her capt.
tai. She is most fond OF glass of beer,
but never touches it, reserving for herself
that Joy, she says, for the time when she
leaves the stage for good.