Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-10-30

and Irvine themselves about the goblets
and glasses. Here also Is Louis XVI,
from the silver dishes to the tiny
saltcellars, spoons and porcelain han
died knives. But we should
never finish If we would enumerate
all the elegances of this interior. We
should not have fingered over the de-
scription so long had 1t not seemed
that thereby we should help better TO
know the woman; this great artist, who
is so little artist in the Bohemian sense
frequently conveyed by the word; who
Is, on the contrary, so refined, delicate
and almost fsirylikel
The commencement Of Mile. Bar
let's career was difficult and laoorious.
Her vocation declared itself, so II Is
related, from her tenderest IN
fancy. When quite child she
had been taken 10 the Comedie Fran
csise and had there seen Mussett's play
OF sin ne badine pas ANGEL Armour.
("Love is not TO be trifled with" She
never slept all night and henceforward
dreamed only Of the theatre.
The actor Delaunay was an acquaint-
ance of the family. lie had often tossed
the little girl on his knees. Had he
perhaps an influence on the child's
tastes? She admired him ana we know
how first impressions strike deep into a
child's mind and what ravage Is
made when once the idea OF becoming
q great artist has penetrated. Is
a young girl she was possessed with the
desire 10 enter into the Conservatoire.
She posted herself on the passage OF
| the girls going to the class In the
Faubourg Poissonniere enjoying their
good fortune, and ran to the Church oil
| st. Cecilia close by 70 pray-and with
what fervor she prayed!-that God
would decide her parents 10 permit her
| one day 10 appear on the stage. There
was under the church porch an old
| beggar-man to whom she habitually
gave a sou, saying: "Pray for me; II
will bring me good fortune and shall
become an actreSs!'
At the age of 16 in 1871, she entered
the Conservatoire in Regnier's class. In
| 1872, at the end of her first year, she
! signed an engagement at the Vaude'
vile, where she remained eight years,
and in 1850 Joined the Coincide Fran
| caise. Exquisite and tender in the class
| ical, full OF charm, grace and penetrat
| ing sweetness, she has realized 10 IN the
greatest success, bit where she has espe'
cially shown herself unrvaled is In the
modern-the theater OF Dumas (the
Younger.) In "Denise," In "Francillon'
she was incompatible. In these char
acters of the Woman OF Our Times hel
modernity could give itself free course
She is just that creature, young, intelli
gent, nervous. perhaps eccentric, a:
Dumas himself admits, but of proud
and noble race, the thoroughbred horse
whom one must touch lightly.
Her box at the French theatre is fur
nished with the same care and taste
that she brings TO all else. 1t Is OF mod
! crate size and square, the ceiling low
and the whole hung with ancient Per
sian stuffs. The panels OF cream-colored
ground thrown up with bouquets Of
Ane-tinted flowers are framed with dell
cately lowered borders. The entry Il
this sanctuary is secured by double cur
tains in order to avoid surprises from
outside. At the back large glass, anC
| before it, on console draped with
gulpure and lighted by two lamps, arr
all the little trifles indispensable to al
actress "to make herself up" as 1t Il
called. Bottles, glasses, small pots o
every form, filed with blanc, rouge
powder, puffs, black pencil for the eye
and eyelashes, velvet patches, brushe
OF tortoiseshell with silver monogram
combs of every size and form
and over the chair is thrown the Valen
I ciennes- trimmed dressing gown. In tn
chimney-piece, also enveloped In gui
pure, is bust of Moliere and two prett,
Celadon cracknel vases. On the wall
some fine water colors, few engrav
ings and a pretty dial Louis XVI. Ii
gilt bronze On The floor thick 0rien
tai carpet gives finishing touch to tn
air OF comfort In this sweet and warm
ly lined nest.
OF what emotions have the walls o
this little place been witness, OF wha
anxieties and heart-beatings at the mo
ment OF the "entree en- scene," OF tn
first charge OF battle; for this charming
actress, like all artists truly worthy o
the name, is always anxious, always IN
certain OF success. never absolutely sat
isfed with herself, dreaming always o
advance and never feeling she has al
talned, although she often succeeds a
the first stroke. ROBERT DE- CERIsY.