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of V1Ctorien Sardou, the dramatiSt,
Academician and man of letters. 1t will
be ready for the Salon OF 1897. The
matter was settled the other day at
Marty where Bernhardt was paying a
visit to Sardou and talking over with
the master various details in connection
with the play he has written specially
for her, and which she will produce this
fall, with grand miseen-Scene, at the
Renaissance, her own pretty little
theater.
This will by no means be the Bern
hardt's first attempt at sculpture. She
has sent works to the Champs Elysees
Salon ere now, and has been favorably
mentioned more than once. Her great
achievement was the bust of the keeper
of the Arc de Triomphe, one of the
pluckiest defenders of the patrie in the
Franco-Prussian war.
This is how it all came about between
Sardou and Nine. Bernhardt.
The revival of Camille has nothing
very extraordinary in itself, but as
Sarah Bernhard promised Alexander
Dumas shortly before his death to enact
the part of Marguerite Gauthier on the
one thousandth performance of the piece
In Paris, she has resolved to give the
well-known comedy-drama some special
attractiveness, and will perform 1T with
the costumes of the period
No man in France possesses a better
or more complete collection of engrav-
dngs and documents of all descriptions
relating to costumes of the nineteenth
century than does Sardou. He was able
to lend Mime. Bernhardt a series OF
oh, q
dress her artists in the garments of two
score years ago. Sardou had not only
pictures of the famous Marie Duplessis
the original Dame aux Camelias, bul
also letters written by her to
her lover, Armand Duval, or, in other
words, to Alexander Dumas, for they
were one and the same person. The
playwright was, therefore, mucn as
tonished when the Bernhardt produced
to him a very unique letter-the Original
one in which Marie Duplessis breaks on
her liaison with her lover. Unknown &c
each other, Sardou and Bernhardt nave
been collecting all the documents they
could lay hands upon relating TO La
Dame aux Camelias and their mutua
friend, the late Alexander Dumas.
The conversation soon turned from
Marie DupleSsiS to Dumas, OF
whom so many oil paintings and busts
have been made When the Bernhard
remarked that Sardou in this respec'
was unlike his contemporaries, mas
much as his picture or his bust had
rarely. if ever, been seen at any salon
he gallantly replied that he would ash
her to do a bust for him for the coming
spring. And Nine Bernhardt, who is
ever ready for more work. promised tc
begin modelling before the end of the
wear. and to exhibit a bust of Sardou al
the next spring Salon.
New York Herald: The poet says the
crownfng glory of woman is her hair
No woman in the world have such lovely
hair as our American women. We are
not a race of blondes or brunettes, noI
vet of Spanish or Titan tinted beauties
but we include each and every one OF
these types in all its glory.
How often does man have occasion to
admire these crowning glories of women
except in the intimacy of ones home!
Without their hats, what a wealth OF
soft and silken treasures would be re-
leased under the brilliant lights Of play
houses,
Think, too. of the thousand and one
ornaments for the hair with which our
shops now glisten; those dainty pear
and diamond mounted side combs, the
infnite varieties of hairpins, back
combs and chains and pendants for the
brow.
These are never displayed at the thea
Her. which is the place of all others fol
their production
AS for the pretty head wraps, too
that may take the place of the big hat
what could be prettier than black lace
veil, with a bow to set 1t off. which car
be rolled up into nothing when you gel
to your seat? Moreover, the moment q
demand is created for such styles OF
headgear, the ingenuity and skill OF oul
modistes Will turn them out in an end
less variety of pretty changes.
PLAYS and Players: A strong echo oi
fbe political excitement developed ir
the company of Bancroft, the magi-
cfan and resulted in the making of a
bat which takes the palm for oddness
Satsuna, the Japanese juggler, has be-
come since his residence in this coun-
try. a. rampant gold bug, while the Ma
haratah ahajabod, a Hindoo, whom
Bancroft brought from India, has ac-
ouired free silver notions of the fiercest
and most unyielding quality. A few
DAYS ago the two foreigners had a
heated political argument, which final
lv ended with the following wager: II
free silver won Prince Satsuma was &c
hold in his teeth for the space of five
minutes n black-headed cobra which
the Maharajah will import from India
If gold won the Prince was to have the
pleasure Of using bamboo bastinadc
upon the bare feet of the Maharajah
and to strike fifty good, sound blows
upon the upturned heels of the Hindoc
noble. The bet was made in the pres
ence of witnesses and will be executed
n, public. though Bancroft is trying
10 exercise his influence to have the
bet declared off.
"Iachimo is quite in Sir Henry Ir-
wings line" says the London World,
.snd he makes a striking, memorable
frure of him. Shakespeare probably
conceived a younger, lighter, more ir-
responsible villain-a singing gadfiy
rather than a rattlesnake. Sir Henry
Irving's Iachimo is a subtle, tenebrous
deadly creature. But his acting is ex-
sremely artistic, both In What ne does
and in what he refrains from doing
He seemed to me, In fact 10 refrain
almost too sternly from the cheap BY
play of the commonplace villain. There
were times, for instance, IN the scene
with Irnogen. when his show or mora
earnestness almost took me In Tor tbs
moment. Ii is a nice question whether
il be not an over-refinement, a super
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