The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-01

Special Correspondence of THE SUNDAY HrpAr,
" NEW DIRK, February 27-It has come with
Lent this year. The charming little debutante
VINO looks dream, as she goes off to eaLv
church in her gray gown with demure little
gray hat, prayer-book bound in gray kid. and
| the primest of gray gloves on her hands is think,
ing not SO much of the salvauon Oh ner soul, as
of:what she saw Madame Sarah do last night.
She is wondering if the five fingers of her pretty
hand could ever gesticulate in such an ex
presslve way, and IL she could ever get her ewes
TO act as do those of the French actress.
These are marvellous eyes, these ewes of
Sarah's just watch them in the scene where
Iosca discovers the knife which she uses to kill
scarp1a She is holding in her hand glass Of
water-her lips are burning with fever and she
is wild with anguish Suddenly straight
Inrough the glass, straight through the clear
water she sees this knife that is to kill the man
who wishes to dishonorlher and she finds in it
her refuge and her lovers salvation. The eyes
close, close until they seem merelya line of dark
across the face; then they open slowly, surely.
until they are two burning orbs gloating with
delight on that sharp bit of STEEL You would
swear then that they were black, and vet when
you saw her looking in the face of her lover.
happy and gay, you believed they were heavenly
blue.Ss When she was studying her music, lust
before she is to sing before the queen, they
looked like the eyes of student, and were
gray. L do not believe any woman ever lived
who had such magnificent control over these
windows of the soul as has Madame Sarah, and
there are times when you confess to yourself
that before she was woman she was an ex-
qulsitely beautiful panther and that she still
retains her litheness and these wonderful eyes
to let the world guess occasionally at what she
used to be. Somebody asked:
"HoW OLD is SARAH?"
She has no age. Who asks how old was ILL
lith or Cleopatra, or Theodore or Katherine
Borgia, or Mary Queen of Scots, or any of the
women who appear once in q century or two
and rulelthe world? For my own part, have
little belief that it is always the same woman,
that It is only Lillith reappearing and reappear-
ing; that sometimes she may take the form of a.
queen and rule nations, sometimes she NAV
take the form of circus rider and become a
queen OF men, and again she may take the
form OF genius and rule not men or nations,
but the whole world, and that's the form she
has chosen to take In Sarah. There is another
queer thing about her that proves my theory
Quite irrespective of the wonderful genius, the
woman holds you, and you wonder why. She's
not pretty, not beautiful-these wonderful
women never are-but fascinating ane charm
euSe. THAT'S it; that's the only way you can
uescrlpe 1t. Individual, capricious, talented
ana yet woman, and in that lies her strongest
ana greatest power. If Sarah were put in that
aoomination of denominations, the ordinary
dress clothes worn by men to-day, she would
a wa,
being woman who was doing this for frolic,
ana 10 save your soul you couldn't think of her
In any other way. That's another charm. NV
friends, don't you wonder that women with
This power sometimes do not choose to blow up
The world or some portion of it They could
do it, and it's more than kind of them not to-.
The little maiden going to church thinks out
all this in her own way, and then she wonders
why.
SHE CAN'T ANALYzE sARAH's ACTING.
You can't analyze what is any more than YOU
can grasp the sunbeam or hold rainbow. It's
here and when she comes on the stage as Floria
Iosca, when she runs the whole gamut of love
making as only woman can, itisn't the actress
or the genius you think of or see, it's Tosca
herself. The people about you have faded
lway, il there is music you hear it in the dis
ance, and all that you know is that YOU are
life story. Trained at the Fran
'ais? My dear child, all the training in the
World Will never make Sarah-such women
ire born, not made. You can pluck in the
African forest an orchid that is marvellous
of beauty in color and shape. You
IAN bring 1t to your home and the orchid cult
yator may take such care of the flower that it
crows more and more beautiful but it is ALWAYS
he orchid as it first was pIucked; improved,
made deeper IN color, stronger in perfume, it
vas yet an orchid to begin with, and that is the
way to work out the story of the training of
genius
THE MASCULINE THEATRE NUISANCE.
It's queer how different people behave at the
hreatre. It's curious to see how absolutely
eltish most of them are. The woman who
ioesn't hesitate to wear a bonnet with rose
hat stands up quarter of yard from it aud
'obs to and fro, making you see at intervals
he mead OF the principal actress entirely gone
nd rosein its place, is not, after all, the worst
fender. Oh, no the worst offender is a man
lis types are several, but one of the most OBJ
eetionable is the one who sits in front of you
nd Wears heavy top coat. Now, instead of
hecking this or making a bundle of it and
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