Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
BERNHARDT AND CALVE Rely
They Answer the Questions Of Figaro
According to their Nature.

We find in the New York Home
Journal samples of the answers return
ed by Sarah Bernhard and Emma
Calve to questions addressed to them
among other lyric and dramatic artists
by the Partisan journal LIE Figaro. The
answers show very plainly the brilliant
Gallo quality of Sarah Bernhard,
which was so near the borders of ma
tive genius. and the essential matter
of-fact nature of the singer Calve
The record is as follows
Questions.
l. Where do you pass your vacations?
2. What is the reason Of your prefer
ence?
T. What do you do there?
5. What are your exercises?
6. Your amusements?
Z. Your regime?
s. Do you dress?
9. Do you avoid people, or seek them
10. Do you f1irt there?
II. Do you think of the theater?
u. Does absence from the stage give
you a feeling of ennui?
10. Do you like to play in salons and
at watering places?
IA. Do you see comrades?
Is. Do you read?
16. What?
II. Have you summed up your last
winter? Do you find it good, better,
OF worse?
IS. In which of the roles that you
| T11o 1oc iOt did fin 10
! most pleasure?
10. In which of all the roles that You
| have played?
20 Do you know what you will play
next season?
! 81. What sort of roles do you pre-
! fer? That is, what qualities and what
failings do you prefer t. incarnate?
%. Who is your favorite dramatic
author?
Answers of Sarah Bernhar1t
i. At the seashore.
2. like above all the sea and
the plains; the sea is a moving plain
the vegetation is below instead of
above.
4. kill myself with fatigue in order
to rest.
5. Hunting, fishing, canoeing, cycling
6. The same.
Z. To amuse myself
s. Oh, no.
8. I avoid the importunate, and seek
my friends
10.Flirting is the amusement of those
who are afflicted with ennui.
II. AS little as possible
- do not like to play in salons. TIC
ennui.
I do not like to play in salons. Tc
play at watering places amuses me-
IA. My comrades do not like the sea-
Is. [ read.
10, Good book,
II. [ never think of what 1 have
done. Yesterday is no more; tomorrow
is not yet; live in the present hour.
Is. That which in my opinion I play
best
10. The same.
20, I shall interpret fine works.
20. ] have no preference. The per.
sonage that presents itself to me in the
form of a role pleases me forthwith
show myself the door, and become
the other. I believe that to this I owe
my eternal gayety. I leave myself so
cf.e1 - have so much joy in finding
myself again.
! p. The good God.
Answers of Emma CaIve.
l. In my country of Aveyron-that
! is, in the mountains.
2. In my little fatherland.
4. idle as much as possible.
| 5. Promenading lin d carriage).
6. play at farming
Z Vegetarianism (when I have the
courage).
8. My animals would be too much
astonished
! g. carefully avoid them.
10. With my hens and ducks.
! II. I try to forget it.
u. Never.
IL. l detest watering places, and to
sing in a salon is torture to me.
! IA. Sometimes.
IS. read much.
is. Almost everything
| II. Good!
! is. Navarraise.
49, Carmen.
90 shall play in America salome
n "Herodiade," OpheIia, Marguerite.
Selika. Suzanne in the Marriage of
Figaro NayaITaise, Cavallerfa. and.
of course, Carmen.
q. Those which offer the greatest
contrasts
p MOIiere.
TOO MUCH SAND,