Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-13
yvErrr GulLBsRr SAILS AWAY.
The French Singer VIII Come Back TO Is
Next as an Actress.

New York Sun.
7y,-otta Cuilbart returned yesterday to h.u-
rome and It is not probable that she Will
or come back to this country in the ca
,,.,itv Of a singer There are good rea-
eons for believing that the public desire
10 hear her on the vaudeville stag mas oee'
,,ret,v we'll satisfied. At the benefit Tor her
manager lat Sunday night she drew a very
s,,,ou audience. Throughout the four
weeks Of her last season here there were
no great audiences to hear heI' SiN
vvette realizes. rs well "a anypouS eiSo
that she is not likely to attract nuch a.
tention here in the future.
"1'he psople have seen me, she saiu 10
Sun reporter. and that has sausied
Them for the time being. There Is no use
{, nv coming back here unless l have
something new to offer them. 1 won't be
abIo IN interest them in myself again So
when return to the United states during
The season after next, It will be as an ac-
rsss. am determined to act. and as soon
ss 7 Get back to PARIS shall have written
FOR me q NAV In which TO make my de-
but. That will be next season IN PARIS
During the following year l shall come
over here.
For several years" she said. II have
been explaining to people why don't 20 on
the stage. Why don't you act?' l have
been asked by the critics in Paris until l
am tired Of answering the question. NOW
I propose 10 try. I can 90 it even II l
don't succeed at 1t at first. | could not
sing six wears ago as do now. | began
very modestly. one doesn't learn every
thing in a Gay. No artist really great ever
stepped on the stage and was perfect from
tba commencement. / may not be an
actress when ! commence, but ] kno" l
can become one. \ year ago thought
that I should never go on the dramatic
stage. I was unique. ard | dreaded the
risk OF failure. but I feel that / can make
the attempt now. My reputation is esetab-
Iishod and | am rich. 4 failure cannot ef-
feet me very seriousl5 now. Besides. 1
won't fail. I shall succeed, maybe not AT
first but eventually.
81 believe that I can act Just az ! sing;
apply the same method to the interpreted
ton Of a whole character that l do to a
song I can be something besides ironical
and satrical.
Camille was nothing more positive than
the suggestion that I might make some
thing new out of the role by acting it IN an
intensely modern manner. making Mar
a-uerite Gautier a woman Of the day. /
could do that. Il Sarah Bernhard takes
the play back to the period in which it
was written and makes the heroine OF that
time. People may say that Duse has al
ready treated the character from this point
Of view and made the woman modern. But
Duse is an Italian. 1t needs a French wo-
man TO be Marguerite Gauter. There Is
a whole series of comedies in the French
repertoire that I feel | should like TO play.
Cuprienne. Sappho and Cesarine are all
parts that I should like TO undertake. But
my first play will he written expressly for
me. have the whole theme Of 1t arranged,
and the first thing l shall do in Paris will
he 10 see the author who is TO write it for
me. Il will be like the burden of most of
the songs I sing and deal with the sadness
and pain Of life the cruelty OF the world
as Il is shown in the case of young girl.
It is true that my contract with Marchand
runs until 1900. But 1 am engaged to him
for only six months in every year. The rest
of that time I can act in Paris or any
where else My contract with Marchand,
moreover. calls on me only TO sing"
Yvette said that in New Orleans she had
for the first time enjoyed the experience
Of singing before an audience which was as
much i'm sympathy with her as the audien
ces that listen to her in ParismSHeiis TAX
ing back to Europe enough mohey to en-
able her 10 stay in Europe and let this
country lie fallow for a year. She is said
to have made on this trip between $4,000
and $4,000. The lack of appreciation which
attended her efforts did not diminish her
profits. They were arranged before she
returned here. That is the reason they
happen to he as great as they are.