The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
Sarah grew wrathful and finally sent

Sarah grew WraIhIOl ana nIally sent
the following letter to the Figaro:
Your kindness-for the artist urges me
to invoke your Indulgence for the Worna an
Adroit enemies thus throw me in the face
i am nervous at being unable to do
nothing against such calumny. 1 enjoy
put my foot in one. never strangled
dogs, never burnt cats; L am not tattooed.
and the .redness of my cheeks resembles
that OF the dead.
I DO? I should much prefer to be a de
hgh 2fi Just to the ppo point had tenn
per- So much the worse for me w9rld; 4 =
everythin g-theater. sculpture. painting:
but that amuses me and l make money
which 1 spend as | please.
SARAH BERNHARDT'
LEAVES THE COMEDIE FRANCHISE.
The account of Bernhardt,s illness in
lish public because she did not appear is
s xl9r1Iy taRen By the comeie Francase in
the matter. Sarah at once sent her resig-
difficulty persuaded to Withdraw. il.
The artists. final separation from the
and resulted in the sale OF her jewelry to
pay the damages awarded the theater by
the courts.
SKETCHED BY ROSTAND.
In his preface Edmond Rostand gives
gge srab ps B saT fhat has Ever been
penned. certainly the most semblant pic
This woman is extraordinary" writes
Rostand, and yet even in thus exclain-
one is speaking the truth And what a
fashion She has of being both legendary
and moderni She belongs to the fairy
taIes-her golden hair-do not words be-
come pearls and diamonds upon her lips?
seasons? Is it not by her will that the
immortal bluebird sings? She may follow
fallen from the Thousand and One
Nights''-and always trembling about her
a ragment-detachmen from a mYSter-
ious realm. But even if the enchanted cas-
ties of old have given place to transatian-
derful wagons-marvels of ingenuity in
which Sarah travels over new lands-even
intrepidity that the wonders recounted of
tons in the tales OF yore, there is no fairy
to protect the heroine save herself She
is her godmother- No other magic
wand owns she but her own will. And to
guide her to traverse the singular events
TOWARDS the apotheose no other genius
.?The existence of Nine. Sarah Bern
the nineteenth century She will become
the fable Al; when one wants to write
that is to say. all the decorations. all the
personages. the beautiful scenes, how she
talk has caused SO many waves of the sea
to move. conceived so many gowns
choirs of the poets of savage lands, the
kings. of exotic animals-it viii need l do
not know what Homer-composed OF a
Kipling
THINGS HEARD AND SEEN.
AN these things I have known by tales
told me-all these voyages. all these skies.
all these hearts. all these flowers, all
these precious stones. all these embrOider-
les these millions. these lions. these 112
roles, these eighty trunks. this glory
these caprices- these carriages unhar-
messed. the crocodile drinking champagne
but all of IL l have never seen What [
have seen is no less Supplying, raVishing,
emotional-and this L often see. A cab
brusquely stopped before door. a woman
in heavy furs deScends. quickly trayerSeS
the crowds who take possession of the
bell Of her harness. while she smiles
mounts a staircase lightly. invades a per-
fumed ladies' Ioge. throws aside little
sack in which there is everything and
follows it with her hat trimmed with
birds wings. becomes slender upon throw
ing aside her sa bleS; is longer any
thing but a wave OF white silk precipi-
tateS herself upon obscure stage. and
goes. comes, renders feveriSh everythin z
she touches, indicates the gestures, fnton-
atoms, gets up, interrupts, wants a pas
sage repea ted. reSeatS herself, reddenS
with rage, laughs, drinks a cup of tea
commences TO rehearse herself, charms all
the old actors looking on in the flies fees
to her loge to confer with the decorators
denoIiSheS with a pair of scissors their
models to reconstruct them herself, can
do no more. is finished with fatigue wipes
her forehead with lace. goes away to
faint. suddenly reyives, tears up to the
top OF the theater to dive into costume
trunks, appears like an apparition before
the astoniShed costuners, fuses among
the boxes of costumes. draperfes pins
tears to pieces goes down to her loge to
teach the hguranteS how to do their hair
has a hundred letters read to her. softens
at the appeals made her. weeps often
thing. confers with the English wig