The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-04
"BAB" SEES MADAME SARAH
BeRNhARoT AS ACTRESS AND WOMAN.
How She Impresses the New York Girl
Gossip About Lent and Easter
Gotham i'm the OG-Time OF
tile Social Season.

Nv YORK. Feb. 27.-[Copyright lit
has come with Lent thisyear. The charm
ing debut0nis, who looks like a dream, as
she goes off to early church in her gray gown
with demure little gray hat. a prayer
book bound in gray kid, and the primmest
of gray gloves on her hands, is thinking
not so much OF her 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-
pressive way, and if she could ever get
her eyes to act as do those OF the French
actress.
These are marvellous eyes. these eyes OF
Sarah's. Just watch them in the scene
where Toscd discovers the knife which
she uses to kill Scdrpid. She is holding
in her hands glass OF water-her lips are
burning with fever and she is wild with
anguish. Suddenly straight through the
| glass, straight through the clear water, she
sees this knife that is 10 kill the man VINO
wishes to dishonor her, and she finds in it
her refuge and her lovers salvation. The
eyes close, close until they seem
merely a 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 yet when
you saw her looking in the face of her
lover, happy and gay, you believed they
were heavenly blue. When she was
studying her music, Just before she is TO
| sing before the queen, they looked ike
| the eyes of a student, and were gray. |
| 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 a woman she was an ex
| quisiteiy beautiful panther, and she still
retains her litheness and these wonderful
DYES TO let the world guess occasionally at
! what she used 10 be.
| Somebody asked, How old is Sarah She
! has no age. Who asks how old was Lilllth
or Cleopatra, or Theodore or Katherine
Borgia, or Mary Queen OF Scots, or any OF
the women who appear once in century
! or two and rule the world? For my own
part, have little belief that it is always
the same woman, that it is only Illllth
rsappearing and reappearing; that some-
times she may take the form OF queen
and rule notions, sometimes she may take
the form of a circus rider and become a
| queen of men, and again she may take the
form of genius and rule not men or ma
| tons, but the whole world, and that's the
! form she has chosen TO take in Sarah.
There is another queer thing about her
tnat proves my theory.
ssQuite irrespective OF the wonderful ge-
MUS, the woman holds you, and you Won
! der why. She's not pretty, not beautiful
! these wonderful women never are--but
fascinating, Une chGrmeuSe. That's it;
that's the only way you can describe it..
! Individual, capriciOus, talented, and yet a
woman, and in that lies her strongest and
greatest power. II Sarah were put in that
abomination OF, denominations, the ordi-
nary dress clothes worn BY men today, she
would Still look O woman. She would i'm
! press you as being woman who was do
ing this for frolic, and TO save your soul
you couldn't think of her in any other
| way. That's another charm. Ny friends,
! don 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
not analyze Sarshs acting.
4 You can't analyze what Is any more than
you can grasp the sunbeam or hold a rain
bow. It's there, and when she come on
the stage as Fi9rio Toscd, when she runs
the whole gamnt of love-making as only
a woman can, il isn't the actress or the
genius YOU think of or see, it's 1oscd her
self. The people about YOU have faded
away, If there is music YOU hear it in the
distance, and all that YOU know is that
YOU are witnessing a life story. Train ed
at the Francois? NY dear child, ali the
training in the world will never make 9
Sarah-such women are born, not made
You can pluck in the African forest al
orchid that is marvellous expression o.
beauty in color and shape. You car
bring il 10 your home snd the orchid
culiivator may take such care of the
flower that it grows more and more beau.
tiful, but it is always the orchid as it first
was piucked; improved, made deeper II
color, stronger in perfume, it was yet al
orchid to begin with, and that is the way
TO work out the Story OF the training OF q
genius.
It's queer how different people behave
at the theater. It's curious to see how
absolutely selfish most OF them are
The woman who doesn't hesitate TO weal
a bonnet with a rose that stands up
quarter OF yard from it and bobs to anC
fro, making YOU see at intervals the head
of the principal actress entirely gone anc
a rose in its place. is not, alter all, the
worst offender. Oh, no. the worst offender
is a man. His types are several, but one
OF the most objectionable is the one who
sits in front of you and wears a heavystoI
coat. Now, instead of checking this OF
making bundle Of it and putting it unde
the seat, he elects when he takes it Off 4
throw it over the back of the chair. anC
you have the pleasure { p OF holding it il
your lap the greater part of the evening
Then he has another way; he is rathe
large, and instead of getting a corner sea
he gets an inside one and rests not only OF
the arms of his own chair, but PARTIAL,
over on your arm. Then. too, he has
more or less pleasing way of coming il
after he has had drink of ice water, anC
forcing you to come out in the aisle jus
at the moment that the curtain has gon,
up aud all the audience, including your
self, are deeply interested in seeing TIT
heroine make her entr6s. But the mai
with the overcoat Is about the worst, ant
really the usher of any respectable theate
ought to have an order to GUST him.
The feminine nuisance is given TO hum
ming the tunes that she hears between
the acts, or else she is 60 overcome by thu
play and the performers that all she cal