The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-29

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rGuilbert's manager, who induced her TO visit
America.
Franco, they are so brave, so generous. so
hospitable and so free. Their hospitality
/ have partaken of, and their generosity,
ma foie, it almost overwhelmed mel
Their braveryl Did they not call the
bloof, as my manager Taidy Marks say,
OF that great bette, Angleterre-Englard,
you call him-the great bandit and bully
OF the world? And free Eth bien, do they
not do as they will, with no gouverneur
or president To halt them as long as they
break no lawY VOLTA, the press have great
libertel 1t jump on bad people, bad laws
and even bad rules. And the great Amer
lean people believe in the press.
The country / like because IL is so big,
so grand, so magnifique, with its char
mant scenery, high mountains, fine rivers
and beautiful lakes.
Helasl l stay not long In America.
I leave New York this week for n petit
tour "a the provinces. Then / go back to
la belle France. / say / go. But l return. l
will come back to Ia grande Amerique aft
or / play my engagements at home. This
was a tour made upon what you Ameri-
cans call the spur OF the IL was
only a trip Of plaisir. And it was plaisir.
Work all the time, but amusement besides.
/ nave driven all over New York in the
daytime and seen all its great men and
women. Most of them indeed / have seen
at the Olympia, where / sang. saw Taidy
not Taidy Marks-but the great Taidy
Roosevelt. My manager say To me that
Taidy shoot one million people off from
beer and wine on Sunday. Miraclel Taidy
would not DO in la belle France. Then L
see Monseigneur Tom Platt and Monsei-
gneur Dick Crokair. Taidy Marks say these
moDseigneurs are the greatest men in
America. Monseigneur Platt, he say,
chooses congressman, senators, gouyer-
neurs, and even presidents, n thus save
the people tho trouble of electing them.
Monseigneur Platt must he "A saint to do
all that work. Monseigneur Crokair, he,
too, my manager say, generally select the
mayor, aldermen, and commissionnair6s or
New York city, and tell them how to
spend the money for the good of the town.
Parbleu, he is q grand man, too, to do all
this work, vraiment an angel, but Taidy
Roosevelt says no.; that NJ. Crokair is
looking for angels.
] saw, too, the ten Beau Brummels Of
New York, my manager says. They are
Messrs. Berry Wall, ollie Tcall, Jack AS
tor, Delaney Nicoll, George Law, Eddie
Schmidt, George Work, Senator Dry Gold
Dollar Sullivan, Padda Divvair and Fred
d. Gebhard, once 10 cher ami dc In belle
Langtry of Jairsay.
/ agree not with my manager. I saw
one monsieur who was more beautiful
than the ten. He was Potair Mahair, the
gladiateur of l'Ireland. He is %tojours beau
sabreur, big, broad, strong, with hair like
the raven, eyes like the gaZelle's and
cheeks like the rose. Moro power to his
arm, rs my friends Of rIreland say, when
he meets Nj. Robairt FitzsimnIuns of Aus
tralia.
l have seen all the great women of tho
town, too, writer's, artists, journalists, ae-
trcssrs and women eff fashion -Mest-ef
them are beautiful as we'll as brilliant. OF
tho actresses Ada Rchan. Agnes Booth,
Blanche Walsh and Julia Nelson make on
me n deep impression; they are so earnest,
vigorous and finished in their work.
And, ma foie, what a lot Of foreign art
lists there are now i'm New York Among
them Is the great Bernhardt. The divine
Sarah is so jealous of my success In New
York that she say that she never see me in
Paris. Tonniere dc ciol, Sarah's great
ness Is waning, If she say she did not see
mo in Paris, or her memory must be fail
ing. There / am as great an artist in my
kingdom as she is in hers. Mine Is mu-
sic; hers is tragedy. Bah, which Is the
sweetor and nicer Of the twoY Music, of
course. If Bernhardt did not sec mo, the
misfortune Is hers. She missed a prcttier
sight than when she stands in front of tho
mirror.
/ spoke of the American mon. / like
the ladies too. They arc so pretty, so
~oleyair, so bright, or, as we say ut homo,
SO chic. They dress I'm good taste too. In
all these little matters they are something
like Frcnchwomen, even to their fine fig
uros. Women of other countries, say of
Germany, England. Holland, Austria and
Belgium. lack these traits. They are not
bright, they are bundly in their build,
they do not dress well, and they do not
talk well. That is why oharmant Ameri-
can girls capture foreign noblcnien. 1t Is
their accomplishments, quito as much as
their money hat does 10.
Helas. far too many lovely girls put
their Leads into the matrimonial moose in
America, too quick. They do not know
their own minds or those Of thor lovers.
VOLTA. what. thenf The divorce COURT
And thu fault Of marriage having been
committed ! think divorce Is the best
ralnndY nj hand-It frees the Woman from
the fcttors of a fool, n knavo or n tyrant.
For myself, / have been fortunate so far
. an tree. Tiiore Is lot "a man on cnrth
good enough for inc to ~marry-goOd
enough to- be- my master, for that Is what
marriage is, according to present laws. 1
will obey no man, so I will not get mar
ried. II l was ever foolish enough TO do