The morning call., 1892-12-18

who has a degree from the Sorbonne.
Aanrof is said to be very witty and to
possess great literary talent. but il seems to
me that his talent is put to very base use.
He calls his songs uncon ventional. but with
out 1vette's superb diction they would
have very little meaning. Yvette Guibert
loves her profession, and there lies the Sc
cret OF her great success. She says: 81
have succeeded, but l have studied. Night
after night cannot sleep because plan
and study. and then ! have a headache
But 1t is such pleasure to learn and to re-
peat what one learns, TO have an apprecia-
tive public. and 10 recte for this public as
one would talk TO friends in a salon. How
love 1t! When / study l must be alone.
quite alone. plac- my hands behind my
back and hold q cane so that l shall make
no gestures. / never study before mirror,
so that my facial effects are always i'm
pronptu."
Yvetle Guilbert is 'struggler for life. 4"
and young though she is very checkered has
been her career. Her father was a commits
sion merchant, and she, like all girls belong
ing TO wealthy families, was brought up in
convent. Gambling ruined her father and
death followed RAPIDLY in the footsteps of
baccarat. At Is Yvette left the convent to
aid her mother. who had opened a shop for
embroidery. She divided her time between
the superintendenee of seventy EN- roiderers
and her lessons in music and defamation
The young girl was anxious to be an act
reSs; but, alas! her mother gradually lost
her sight. and at the age of IL Yvette was
Obliged to become lay figure in great
dressmaking establishment Thence she
went 10 the PTintemps and gave her services
for $50 a month. The existence of a girl at
the Prlntemps is slavery, and soon Yvette's
health failed completely. Rest was pre-
serlbed, but she must live. She decided
that she was capable OF writing society
notes for the Echo de Paris. and with this
object in view she went to see Aurelien
Scboll, the famous chroniQueur. He told
her she bad talent and paid her we'll for the
notes. One day, in his enthusiasm, he said
to her:
"Ahi what a pity you are not my daugh-
ter; could make something of YOU"
AT last 1vette was engaged at the Ell
dorado for 500 francs a month; this was to
her fortune. But after two months the
management wished to reduce her salary to
goo francs month. Quickly she fled to the
Eden concert, but here the administration
was shocked by her unconventional songs.
her talent, however, was sufficient to con-
quer their scruples. and as answer to their
arguments, she gave them success.
lie Divan Japonais, a celebrated cafe AT
Montmartre, freqaented by Bohemians of
all professions, was her next engagement.
and then she went to the Moulin Rouge. a
Kind OF Jardin Msbile. Here she made
the acquaintance of journalists, who wrote
Oh her talent and appreciated her success.
IL was lie Courier Francois that first pub
iished fvette's portrait. but she never
really appeared before the Partisan public
as celebrity until she sang at festival
given at the Troeadero. Then the fashion
able world exclaimed, What discovery
another Sarah Bernhard! What dictioni
How GRACEFUL!
The Parisians were conquered by song.
the idol of Paris.
with Gilbert the humorst, Tyette Gull
bert went to Belgium and then returned to
make her debut at cafe.chan tant in the
PauDourg Saint-Denis, called the Concert
Parisien. The Concert Parsien is close 10
the boulevards and at night. in letters of
flame, one could read Debut OF Yyette
Gnilbert in her centory-end repertoire"
everybody went to the Concert Parsien
10 near ivette, as everybody had been to
near Paulus, the friend OF General Boulan-
ger, or rather the more than friend, the
maker of Boulanger's fame Soon as she
appeared at the Concert Parisien, Yyetts
received Invitations to sing In private houses,
aho az ba roness Alphonse de Rothschild's
she had great success.
society ladies' organized series of
matinees at the Theatre d'AppIicatjon. with
Yvette Guilbert for the star aud Hughes la
houx, the journalist, as introdueer and ex-
FOUNDER OF her repertoire. An engagement
to sing three songs every night at the Non.
veau cirque was very lucrative, and after.
ward the Horloge, cafe-chantant in the
Champs Eysees. was crowded with the
fashionable world. and Yyette was recalled
st's, uoeI' Liz Is no longer
struggle to earn her daily bread, for il is
SAID that not one evening does Yyette an
pear before the public without receivinua
panKnote Tor 1000 francs. Yvette is yery
benevolent, and each day she gives regu-
iariy napoleon to the beggars on her way.
win all her temptations. with all her vile
surroundings, 1t is believed that Yvette
0uiioert mas remained a pure honest girl
ana Dy one of her managers, Brasseur. /
thihK, she was called the '.dishonor OF the
mouse, because she was not willing To lead
tne NE OF her comrades. 1t seems YveSe
GTunoett mas aspirations for the Coincide
FRANCHISE. but she would make great mis-
TAKE TO change her sphere, because her
eharm is In her natural manner, her freedom
from all theatrical pose.
BARONESS ALTHEA SALVADOR.
Paris. Nov. %. 1892.