Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
STAGE STAR sT1Rs ARTISTS.
Mae. saharet Daisies Europe With
Venuslike Beauty.

Painted by Franz Won I'm n
score. OF Brilliant Poses-CarOlus
Durand and stuck of Munich Want
Sfttfngs-Diva's Name Is Clarfssn
Rose and Her Spouse Is Her Impre-
sario.
BERLIN. March 18.-Mms. Saharet
is the name of the newest variety star,
who a short time G began her VIC
torious career with unexampied sue
cess on the European stage. station
cry stores are making a mint OF
money selling her photographs IN all
sorts of poses and styles and her par
ties are conspicuous above all others
for size and originality of conception.
Nine. Saharet owes her reputation
not only to her very original terpsi-
chorean art, a mixture OF dancing and
gymnastics, but to her immaculate
beauty.
This latest idol Of Vanity Fair is
beautiful indeed-a charming Austria
liam flower, so Venuslike that Franz
Won Lenbach, Germany's foremost
portrait painter, has considered her
worthy to be immortalized by his
brush. Other artists vie for opportu-
mites to obtain sittings and many
commodities, such as cigars and soap,
bear her name.
Nine. Saharet was Lenbach's model
for an entire month. After complet-
ing more than a score of fine studies
he remarked that he had had
such a perfect model. In Lenbach's
studio she met no less a parsonage
fhop Koicor uyi1ho1m himcp1f
Kaise- Likes Her o
His majesty is said to have been
greatly struck by her ravishing
beauty and to have found insignif-
cant pretexts for frequent visits to
Lenbach. Lippay in Vienna, Carolus
Durand and Bonnat have begged her
to sit for them and the latest invita-
ton has come from the great genre
painter Stuck in Munich.
The stage fairy appears every night
to crowded houses in the Wintergar-
ten here. The audiences are strained
to the heighth of excitement before
her number on the programme. The
notes of 1.-The Geisha" waltz have
died away. The orchestra starts a
fiery dance music. The bell rings
and slowly, as if intended to tease the
patience of the audience, the curtain
rises. Suddenly the diva appears in
glorious, dazzling array, in dress of
fiery red, transparent like a spiders
web. Her tights under the dress be-
tray a divine form glitterfng with
gold and multicolored jewels, sur
mounted by a baby face with a pair
of large, sparkling, baby eyes. Her
hair is jet black and curly. She be-
gins to dance and every move is care
fully followed by the spectators-slow
at first, a sort of rocking, swaying
motion, then faster and even wilder,
like a bacchante in the abandon of
d~elirious joy.
Blood-red flames play around the
gyrating beauty, showing off the per-
lection of every lieament of the shape
ly creature. Nine. Saharet exerts
much influence with her eyes. At
times they twinkle in azure blue in
childish joy, then in arrogant pride,
then they seem to assume a darker
hue, like the consuming fire of a pas
sionate woman. She INDUCES in all
the gymnastics of the modern aero
batic dansuese, her dance growing
wilder and wilder. Then when it ap-
pears most fanatic and weird she sud-
denly stands still, and, throwing a
kiss to the fascinated audience, she
disappears behind the scenes.
Clarissa Rose is the real name of
Mime. Saharet. She was born in Mel
bourne, Australia. Her mother was a
sort of fortune teller and her house in
Melbourne was a favorite meeting
place for soubrettes. Her father was
q steward on a transatlantic steamer.
She is now % years old. Two years
ago she married M. Saharet, who is
also her i~mpresario.