The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-29
SARAH's WARDROBE
AN EXTENSIVE ONE

A New York sun reporter who called
on Sarah Bernhard shortly after her
arrival thus describes. what he saw and
found out about the divine Sarah s
wardrobe:
What picture!" he exclaims
From the hallway, full to overlooking
of trunks. to the roof, the landings and
the ante-chambers were filed with
baskets and boxes, bags and trunks.
MaidserVants and menservants ran
continually up and down stairs, amid
calls on the telephone, ringing at the
outside door and at every second the
announcement of some visit. There
were tradesTnen. architects. artists
friends; this one with jeWelry, that one
with china, another with a plan for
I interior decoration, another to finish
red-chalk drawing of Bernhard and
finally people from the dressmakers,
the mOdistes, the shoemakers.
a hundred and fifty of these visit
OrS had come and gone since morning.
Sarah saw everybody, replied to them
all, and here she was, still smiling and
fresh in her lace morning gown, with
out shadow of fatigue or of nervous
ness, thinking of everything, giving
orders here and there, hurrying, en-
cOuraging, recommending, examining
everything as if she were a general
holding a review. She could not stay
in one place, so 1 went with her in this
promenade, very much amused by all
that 1 saw and by our broken CONVEX
sation.
Yes" she said. lit is my fifth voy-
age to America. Since 1882 have gone
pretty regularly about every five years.
/ feel almost sure that this viii be my
farewell tour, because. after all. every
thing has a limit and one must know
where to stop
she is enchanted to go" remarks
hot at
point and adds, and she looks it,
1t is a charming country" continues
Sarah. full of agreeable and hospit-
able people. At each new visit that
have made the receipts have increased.
This ting COqUelin adds an enormous
element of success"
The reporter sits down on trunk
and writes the list of the plays to be
given, but that is no news in America
As they went about the house Sarah
and the reporter, they stumbled con-
tinualiy over packages and boxes. It's
like big department storei" eXclaim-
ed Sarah.
There are in fact a few trunks, it
seems to me-" said the reporter
About fifty, laughed Sarah. And
yet I'm rot taking many gowns Let
us see, that makes-let's count" And
she told off on her fingers: Five
gowns for Camille, six for 'Frou-
Frou, three For La Tosca.' five for
koXanne IN 'CyranO, one for Elmire
IN 'Iartufe. two costumes for Ham
let. two for L'AigIOn.' one for Phedre,
and one for Jean-Marie. That makes
tWenty-six costumes for the theatre. 7
am also taking eight fur costumes and
don't count twenty or twenty-five
street gowns, dinner gowns, morning
gowns. evening and reception toilettes
and summer gowns, because at San
Francisco we shall be having summer
weather. You see, I'm not taking very
muchi'
While Sarah was thus detailing the
.Trlnlng wardrobe which she is taking to
America, she led her visitor to what she
calls une waste penderie; or. as we
might say, a great big room for hang
ing clothes. Here were countless rows
OF gowns, of clOaks. of rare furs. Open
Wardrobes showed a mass of other toll
cites, Of every color and every kind of
material. dresses of lace. waists in en-
Eroidery, encrlsted with stones and
spangles; satins, silks, blue, green, rose,
violet yellow,
Il have, among others, three pas
sions, said Sarah; "a passion for
cloaks d passion for hats, a passion for
shoes
A maid, who was properly amused by
the masculine stupor into which the
reporter was thrown by the vision of
all these wonders, opened two immense
wardrobes and showed him the con-
tents. In one of them were innumer-
able rows of little white boxes
THE shoes which are to be taken"
announced the maid. with an indulgent
smile.
The reporter counted the boxes. There
were 120. Each enclosed a pair of Slip
pers or shoes Of satin or suede and of
different colors- From each pair of
shoes peeped a pair OF rolled-up silk
stockings of the same shade as that of