The Indianapolis journal., 1896-04-06


To her credit 1t must be said that she has
striveD for artistic. excellence as well as
glory.
Her forehead is well balanced, and pre-
sents a good development in the regions of
both perception and reflection. She win OBJ
serve the tiniest objects with the precision
OF Photographic camera, provided she is
interested to do so. Her ability to Judge
and remember the form of things is prob
ably the most remarkable feature Of her
lower forehead. This is shown in the great
width between the eyeballs. Memory of
form is essential to all artists. and Is a tai
ent quite common among the French Nine.
Bernhardt has also arched eyebrows, which
betokens a fine sense of color, and she shares
with Joseph Jefferson and many others in
her profession the reputation OF being
fine painter.
Her forehead is wide at the temples. This
signifies mechanical ingenuity and love of
music. She has large stock of ideas as
well as sensations. and for the most part
she does her own thinking. She Is also
mlrthful and witty.
But what Is the secret OF her power as an
actress? First of all, she is a woman of
wide experience with the world. She enacted
all the roles Of tragedy and comedy in her
stage. Like Rachel. Salvini. Clara Morris.
Janauschek and the Booths, and many other
great histrionc artists, she drained the cup
of sorrow in the tender years OF childhood.
An the depths of her soul were sounded by
the rude plummet of fate. All her heart
strings were thrilled in her youth by actual
she has but to awaken the memories Of emo
tons that once were real. In her sensitive
brain all experiences are registered as in a
book. A simple suggestion. mere glance
will recall them. Under the stimulus of a
dramatic situation her own life rises before
her mental vision and then she needs only to
abandon herself to the speech and action of
the play to hold the mirror up to nature in
very truth.
Irene Perry and Albert Weber.
NEW YORK, April 5.-Justice MacLean
OF the Supreme Court. yesterday handed
down an order awarding Mrs. Irene Weber a
counsel fee of $3.50. pending the determine
ton of the suit for absolute divorce brought
by her against Albert Weber, the piano
manufacturer. She charges her husband with
undue intimacy with Chrissie Carlisle, who
was chorus girl in '-The Passing Show"
and later In the chorus OF 1.-The Lady
Slavey." Mrs. Weber says she left her hus-
band last spring, when she discovered her
husbands friendship with Miss Carlisle. for
whom, she says. he had hired and furnished
fiat In East Ninety-sixth street, under the
name Of Mr.. Carlisle. She went to Europe,
having had an understanding with her hus-
band that he was to allow her $40 a week.
| She says that she only received from him
Mrs. Weber, who was Irene Perry. says
that she was married to the defendant at
the Continental Hotel. Philadelphia, in the
presence of Weber's mother and sister, by
| the Rev. Alfred Nevins, on July s, 1888. A
letter written to Mrs. Weber by her hus-
band on Aug. 80. 1885, while she was in
I'm a fit Of desperation, and against my
wishes. you signed with Hoyt and appeared
to Europe e. Twas was glad to s get a1 rid Of y you ~
You went and are there now, and Ii Is the
best place for you to be- Fanny Ward, Nina
why not ty you? W You % can be be more % entertaining ing
| more fascinating than either of them.
know 1t. You are young yet and able TO
make good living better away than with
/ me.
"As for myself. 1 have now practically
| nothing and am going out to Arizona or New
| Mexico or some other God-forsaken place to
| try to make a fortune. free from all ties
| away from civilization. / advise England
instead of America. ALBERT"
"Since you have been pleased to cast me
| adrift upon the world have thought long
and seriously OF your mental condition. Not
that there is possibility of your going mad
but that you must be mad already. Oh
| Albert, the pity OF 1t! Such bright man.
such advantages, such future-all lost &c
but little influence when in competition with
the devil; SO It Is with mortals. One pure
i mind and heart IS but sorry competition
against the wicked ones which surround it.
| II wish you renewed health, that you may
| be better able to battle with your unhappy
| condition. AS for myself, I have but little
| courage left. but suppose shall get on some
| how. We SHALL but, believe me. 1t shall be
| by honest means. God help you. Goodbye
| Your wife, IRENE
| Weber not only denies all her allegations
/ but also his marriage to the plaintiff. He
/ was head OF the Weber Piano Company
| which was recently dissolved on account o
| financial difficulties. Mrs. Weber is at pres
| ent playing in Excelsior Jr.' In furthel
| aff1davit she states that her husband was
/ once intimately associated with Sadie
Thorne, then kept Nina Harrington in a fia
| In Twenty-third street. and finally became