New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-04

cause the relations they have formed have not
been Of kind to initiate them INTO those social
mysteries which must remain mysteries to them,
except for these irregular methods or knowledge.
There is in truth no secret about these relation
ships. or none in Paris. They are matters Of COM
mon knowledge in society and u common gossip
outside IT, They are not anonymous-ro such dis
creton is practisel In talk is observed, some
times, in print Sometimes scandal occurs ia
grant enough to spread the facts all over the
world. One such must be fresh In your memory:
in which the man. who bore a name once
great drove a young actress - suicide. Circum-
stances less tragic and without any tragedy at all
may make other instances equally celebrated.
Everybody knows 10 whom the one actress III
Paris whose distinction Of manner Is most remark
able owes her training.
AS the Comtesse de Simerose in NJ Dumas
play. Nine. Bartet is a brilliant illustration OF all
this. When she comes into Nine. I-everdet's salon
all unknown t. de Ryons he is challenged by
Nine. Leverdet to say who or what she Isl Cor he is
not only the friend Of women. but proiesset eX-
pert in women, and has just been Wanting
his own gifts "Obviousy a great lady. he
answers and upon being asked how he judges
gives an inventory Of those oXcelcnces IN WINCH
whether as Jane de SimerOse or otherwise. Nine.
Bartet is supreme. Her manners have precisely
that repose which STAMPS the caste of We're Dc
We're. She Is perfectly dressed. There is never a
gesture too much never moment Of forgetful-
ness never a mistake. Yet when passion has 10
be expressed it Is expressed. and when. as NJ. De
Montegre, her would-bc lover. VI. Raphael puiios.
becomes most angry and most grotcsQue Nine.
Bartet puts him in his place with rehuke 50
quiet that until it is over. YOU hardly notice how
II nj he throughout WITH
the most admirable art. never ceasing for an in
slant TO be lust what de Ryons has pronounced
Jane de Simerose to be. | am not quite sure
whether this precise style is to be found else
where: certain It is that Nine. Bartet has brought
II TO perfection.
One word on another artist-one Of the four
whom mentioned ycscrlay-Alme Rosita Mauri,
the leading danseuse At the Grand Opera. SHE
has been the leading danseuse at the Grand Opera
ever since the great house which looks down the
new Avenue to the Louvre was finished; how
much longer cannot say No longer young.
therefore. and perhaps never a great beauty. but.
az a dancer. without a rival in Europe. and an
artist deserving of the tribute due 10 superiority
in art OF whatever kind II was once thought she
might some day have a rival in Mile. SUPRA |
can remember Mile Subra's debut. now a good
many years ago. ana have seen her often during
those years and saw her again last week SIZE Is
a dancer Of great technical accomplishments; per
haps stands next to Nine. Mauri. but stu at a
great distance. and at a great distance Will ever
remain. She was once slight and Is now stout,
once pretty and now mature, and the limit 81 her
power has been reached.
Nine Mauri and Mile Subra were both dancing
on Wednesday In LA Maladetta." a ballet Of the
kind which has long had home on this stage, an
elaborate librctto in two acts elaborate music,
scenery and costume both rather simple. IL mere
splendor. the Alhambra ballots IN Iond ln. or the
best Of them, easily surpass those ~ the HIahl
Opera here II is in the dancing and perhaps 90
the music that the Opera is $40 much hD"r. Th'
CORPS lie ballet is here body OF trained ana come
pctcnt dancers. In London IL consists Il Wnin'"
who sor the most part cannot dance At al, hui are
trained To 20 through certain cvDuii'ns. As "a
dancer Nine. Mnur, liz young as over, OF
Younger She dances with The most heautifu
precision accompllshes the most difhcnli steps
and figures IA If they were nothing KNOWS all nat
can be- known II The technique ~ her profession
And she does II all with youthful frrHhnrrn ANA
easy grace that nfc marvellous she 10 "'' Hi''hH''
ana ie perhnp. tho one dancer VINO mover suggests
"a diflicuiiy till II IN overcome. nor over t"'h' -
make NJ effort Sho touches The r'ngo fp Ushil}
that tho stage also seems to be- all springs "h"
may or may not bo the equal If the celebrities
whom mono ~ us have eyer rorn ana all ool'v" ~
from tradition II iH Impossible - say. bat 1t -
possible TO speak # Nine. Mauris dancing "a h''h
fascinating and faulless. and there Is nobody 'se
now living TO whom both adjcctiyes would apply.
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